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Mary Jean Loutsenhizer, known professionally as Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009), [1] was an American jazz singer. Biography. Chris Connor was born Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri, to Clyde Loutsenhizer and Mabel Shirley.
Sep 1, 2009 · Chris Connor, the great jazz singer whose lush, foggy voice and compressed emotional intensity distilled a 1950s jazz reverie of faraway longing in a sad cafe, died on Saturday in Toms River,...
Jun 23, 2019 · Chris Connor has won every conceivable critical and popular accolade in her half century reign as one of the most gifted and distinctive vocalists in jazz history. Born in 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri, Connor studied clarinet, but her career direction was clear at an early age.
Sep 4, 2009 · Chris Connor, a smoky-voiced jazz vocalist who had numerous hits during a career that spanned more than 50 years, has died. She was 81.
Sep 1, 2009 · Chris Connor, a smoky-voiced jazz vocalist who gained renown for her recording of “All About Ronnie” and other singles with the Stan Kenton Orchestra before going solo in 1953 and having...
Legendary jazz vocalist Chris Connor, who first came to prominence with the orchestras of Claude Thornhill and Stan Kenton and went on to record dozens of successful albums and singles, died on Saturday evening, August 29 at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ following a long bout with cancer, according to her publicist Alan Eichler.
Aug 29, 2009 · Practitioner of the cool school of the '50s and one of the most acclaimed jazz singers of her era. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1950s - 2000s. Born. November 8, 1927 in Kansas City, MO. Died. August 29, 2009 in Toms River, NJ.
