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, N.J. She was 81 and lived in Toms River.
The cause was cancer, her publicist, Alan Eichler, said.
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Ms. Connor is survived by her longtime partner and manager, Lori Muscarelle.
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