Artist: Blossom Dearie
Genre(s):
Vocal
Jazz
Discography:
Blossom Dearie Verve Jazz Masters 51
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
Jazz Masters 51
Year: 1957
Tracks: 16
A classifiable, schoolgirlish voice, nipping, impeccable delivery, and an irrepressible sense of playful swing made Blossom Dearie one of the almost gratifying singers of the outspoken era. Her warmheartedness and froth ensured that she'd ne'er treat standards as the hackneyed songs they frequently appeared in less capable manpower. And though her report was made on record with a string of splendid albums for Verve during the '50s, she remained a draw with Manhattan floor show audiences long into the new millennium.
Actually innate with the name Blossom Dearie in the New York Catskills, she began acting pianissimo at an early historic period and studied classic music before qualification the electric switch to jazz patch in high school day. After gradation, she affected to New York and began coming into court with vocal groups like the Blue Flames (attached to Woody Herman) and the Blue Reys (with Alvino Rey). She besides played cocktail forte-piano around the urban center, and stirred to Paris in 1952 to form her have radical, the Blue Stars of France. Dearie besides appeared in a night club play with Annie Ross, and made a brusk, uncredited appearance on King Pleasure's vocalese classical, "Moody's Mood for Love." She recorded an isolated record album of forte-piano solos, and in 1954, the Blue Stars hit the national charts with a French version of "Cradlesong of Birdland."
After auditory sense Dearie do in Paris in 1956, Norman Granz gestural her to Verve and she returned to America by the end of the year. Her eponymous debut for Verve featured a set of standards that aslope traditional pop back to its roots in Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and floor show. Her focussing on knowledgeable readings of standards ("Deed of conveyance I Do," "Thousand Swell") and the relaxed triad scene (bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jo Jones, plus Dearie on piano) john Drew nods to her nightspot screen background.
On her following few records, Dearie stuck to her focal point on standards and small groups, though her gift for songwriting emerged as well with songs like "Blossom's Blues." She performed in solo settings at supper clubs all over New York, and appeared on the more civilised of the late-'50s New York lecture shows. Her married man, flautist Bobby Jaspar, made several appearances on her records, notably 1959's My Gentleman Friend. After a recording break in the early '60s, Blossom Dearie gestural to Capitol for one album (1964's May I Come In?), merely then recorded slenderly during the rest of the ten.
At long last, in the other '70s, she formed her have Daffodil Records mark and began releasing her have work, including 1974's Bloom Dearie Sings and the following year's My Favorite Celebrity Is You. She besides performed at Carnegie Hall with Anita O'Day and Joe Williams, billed as the Jazz Singers. She continued to perform and record during the eighties, centered mostly in New York merely also a regular attraction in London as well.
