CLAIRE AUSTIN *When Your Lover Has Gone* U.S. LP NM- In Shrink DG Contemporary

$

50

EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL VINYL

U.S. MONO DG PRESSING

Includes Original Contemporary Records inner Sleeve

 1956

**CLAIRE AUSTIN**

**WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE**

Claire Austin (November 21, 1918 - June 17, 1994) was an American blues and jazz singer and pianist from the Pacific Northwest.

She was born to Swedish-American parents in Yakima, Washington. She played in nightclubs throughout the northwest in the 1930s, toured with the Chuck Austin Band in the 1940s across the U.S.  She had retired from professional singing by the early 1950s, and was working as an accountant for the state of California in West Sacramento;  after singing with Turk Murphy, she drove to San Francisco frequently for a couple of years to perform. She remained active through the 1970s. Her singing style has been compared to Peggy Lee  She was married to Chuck Austin, with whom she had three children.

Claire Austin is one footnote in jazz history worth hearing again. Her rich tone and natural phrasing are a bit reminiscent of Peggy Lee on the ten torch songs she recorded in 1955 with a quintet that blended the traditional conception of Bob Scobey's trumpet with more modern strains from guitarist Barney Kessel and the rhythm section. 

When Your Lover Has Gone, Can't We Talk It Over, My Melancholy Baby, I'll Never Be the Same, Lover Come Back to Me, The House is Haunted, I'm Thru with Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Come Rain or Come Shine, What is This Thing Called Love? 

with Bob Scobey, Barney Kessel, Stan Wrightsman, Morty Corb, Shelly Manne, Kid Ory, Don Ewell, Ed Garland, Minor Hall

***CONTEMPORARY Records***

C 5002

Tracks Include : please see above

CONDITION

Jacket: NM- (Two small pieces of cello tape on bottom left shrink -see pics)

Vinyl: NM-

U.S.  Pressing of 

***CLAIRE AUSTIN***

***WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE***

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