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description: Irene Kral (January 18, 1932 – August 15, 1978) was an American jazz singer who was born to Czechoslovakian parents in Chicago, Illinois, and settled in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. She died, due ...

Irene Kral (January 18, 1932 – August 15, 1978) was an American jazz singer who was born to Czechoslovakian parents in Chicago, Illinois,[1] and settled in Los Angeles in the early 1960s.[2] She died, due to breast cancer, in Encino, California.

Songs:

01 Memphis In June《The Great Jaz..》38
02 It's a Wonderful World《Just For Now》3
03 Some Time Ago《Kral Space》1
04 The Antique Medley (..《The Gentle Rain》1
05 Sunday《Just For Now》1
06 The Meaning of the Bl..《Just For Now》1
07 You Are the Sunshine..《Just For Now》2
08 Just for Now《Just For Now》2
09 Rock Me To Sleep《Just For Now》1
10 Where Is Love?《Just For Now》4
11 Where Is Love?《Where Is Love?》2
12 Spring Can Really Han..《Where Is Love?》1
13 Never Let Me Go《Where Is Love?》3
14 Love Came On Stealt..《Where Is Love?》1
15 When I Look In Your..《Where Is Love?》4
16 I Like You, You're Nice《Where Is Love?》8
17 You Are The Sunshine.. 《Irene Kral Live》2
18 The Touch Of Your Lips 《Irene Kral Live》1
19 I Love You Trio Only 《Irene Kral Live》2
20 I Like You, You're Nice 《Irene Kral Live》5
21 Small Day Tomorrow 《Irene Kral Live》4
22 Gentle Rain 《Irene Kral Live》1
23 You Are There 《Irene Kral Live》3
24 The Antique Medley -..《Gentle Rain》10
25 What's New《Gentle Rain》2

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Kral's older brother, Roy Kral, was a successful musician when she started singing professionally as a teenager. She sang with bands on tours led by Woody Herman and Chubby Jackson, former Herman bass player. She joined Maynard Ferguson's band in the late 1950s and sang with groups led by Stan Kenton and Shelly Manne. She then started a solo career until her death at 46 years of age. She was a ballad singer who stated that Carmen McRae was one of her inspirations. She became more famous posthumously when Clint Eastwood used her recordings in his 1995 movie The Bridges of Madison County.[3]

Her style has been compared to that of Carmen McRae (the two singers were friends). Dana Countryman quotes from Lorraine Dahl's 1984 book on women in jazz, Stormy Weather: "Irene Kral had a lovely, resonant voice with a discreet vibrato, flawless diction and intonation, and a slight, attractive nasality and shaping of phrases that resembled Carmen McRae's. But where McRae's readings tend to the astringent, Kral's melt like butter. She was a master of quiet understatement and good taste."[1]
Discography

    Maynard Ferguson - Boy with Lots of Brass - EmArcy (1957)
    The Band and I (1958)
    Detour Ahead United Artists (1958)
    Steveireneo! - United Artists (1959) with Steve Allen and Al Cohn and his Orchestra
    Better Than Anything - DRG (1963)
    featured on two tracks from Laurindo Almeida's Guitar from Ipanema - Capitol (1964)
    Wonderful Life - Mainstream (1965)
    Where Is Love? - (1974)
    Live in Tokyo - (1976)
    Kral Space (Catalyst Records, 1977)
    Gentle Rain - Choice (1977)
    The Buddy Collette Quintet with Irene Kral - Studiowest/VSOP (1997)
    Live Culture Press - (1998)
    Where Is Love? - Choice/Koch (1999)
    You Are There? - Audiophile (1999)
    Just For Now - Jazzed Media (2004)
    Second Chance - Jazzed Media (2010)

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