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Blossom Dearie

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Blossom Dearie was a remarkable American jazz vocalist, pianist and composer from the bebop era known for her unique voice, definitive arranging style and continent spanning career. From recordings and radio to Calvin Klein ads, the Gilmore Girls television show, and many other film and TV soundtracks, her career swung into the 21st Century. Christina Aguilera and Carly Rae Jepsen are fans, and her friend Tony Bennett honored her as a jazz influence. Elton John recently named the piano he uses in his Las Vegas shows after Blossom. Blossom Dearie was born in the Catskill Mountains of New York State and was given her name by three proud brothers who brought pear blossoms into the house upon her arrival

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Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-1970

Label: Mercury Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc: 1 1 On Broadway 2 When the World Was Young 3 When in Rome 4 The Shadow of Your Smile 5 Everything I've Got Belongs to You 6 Once Upon a Summertime 7 I'm Hip 8 Mad About the Boy 9 The Shape of Things 10 Satin Doll 11 Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue (Single B-Side) Disc: 2 1 Let's Go Where the Grass Is Greener 2 You Turn Me on Baby 3 Sleeping Bee 4 Sweet Lover No More 5 Sweet Georgie Fame 6 That's No Joke 7 Peel Me a Grape 8 One Note Samba 9 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 10 I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him 11 Big City's for Me 12 You're Gonna Hear from Me 13 Moonlight Saving Time (Single A-Side) Disc: 3 1 A Wonderful Guy 2 Trains and Boats and Planes 3 Alfie 4 Meditation 5 How Insensitive 6 Soon It's Gonna Rain 7 Sunny 8 Watch What Happens 9 I Was Looking for You 10 Dindi 11 Once I Loved 12 The Folks Who Live on the Hill 13 The Music Played (Single A-Side) 14 Discover Who I Am (Single B-Side) Disc: 4 1 That's Just the Way I Want to Be 2 Long Daddy Green 3 Sweet Surprise 4 Hey John 5 Sweet Georgie Fame 6 Both Sides Now 7 Dusty Springfield 8 Will There Really Be a Morning 9 I Know the Moon 10 Inside a Silent Tear 11 Yesterday When I Was Young 12 I Like London in the Rain 13 Hey John (Single A-Side) 14 Groovy) (Single B-Side) Disc: 5 1 Upside Down (Rings and Things) 2 Favourite Things 3 The Joker 4 What the World Needs Now 5 What Is 6 Long Daddy Green (Instrumental) 7 The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 8 Wave 9 Something 10 Long Daddy Green 11 Feeling Good Being Me 12 I Was Looking for You 13 Ask Yourself Why Disc: 6 1 Now That We're Here 2 Didn't We 3 Windows of the World 4 Discover Who I Am 5 Hey John 6 While We're Lovin' Baby 7 Let It Be Me 8 Inside a Silent Tear 9 Woe Is Me 10 Inside Out 11 You Have Lived in Autumn 12 I'm Hip 13 If I Were a Bell 14 Until It's Time for You to Go

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Article: Take Five With...

Meet Tubist Jim Shearer

Read "Meet Tubist Jim Shearer" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jim Shearer Jim Shearer was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, in 1964. His family owned the local newspaper, The North Mississippi Herald, from 1943-2004, and his father was an active musician on the side, playing jazz saxophone and serving as Minister of Music at the family church (but never at the same time!). After spending ...

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Article: Album Review

Hannah Gill: Everybody Loves a Lover

Read "Everybody Loves a Lover" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Hannah Gill has a passion for jazz and draws her inspiration from the likes of Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day and Ella Fitzgerald. On this debut release Everybody Loves a Lover, Gill takes on eleven swing-era standards, and while staying true to the original music, she infuses them with her style, which is inflected with blues and ...

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Article: Profile

Paula West and the Art of Making Art

Read "Paula West and the Art of Making Art" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


Jazz singing is like a horse race. To the casual eye, all the horses in the stall look the same. But they aren't. Some have more talent. Some are better trained. Some have better jockeys. Some are more exciting to watch. But no matter what we see or don't see, what the odds might be, or ...

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Article: Album Review

Maci Miller: Nine

Read "Nine" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


jny:Philadelphia-based singer Maci Miller gives her audience a variety of looks, all of them good. On first hearing, Blossom Dearie, but then, Blossom Dearie was Blossom Dearie. No one ever sounded quite like her. Then again, there is some mid 1960s Nancy Wilson, hushed, clipped, all business. On reflecting that Dearie and Wilson an odd combination ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Our Man in Paris: An American Travelogue

Read "Our Man in Paris: An American Travelogue" reviewed by David Brown


For this week's show, let's travel to Europe with a variety of American artists performing in France, recording for French film soundtracks, and collaborating with French artists. Etes-vous prêt? Co-hosted by Lisa Jo Epstein. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 06:10 Sidney Bechet “Ooh Boogie!" from Sidney Bechet ...

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News: Recording

Blossom Dearie: The Fontana Years, 1966-1970

Blossom Dearie: The Fontana Years, 1966-1970

Born in Upstate New York in 1924, Blossom Dearie wasn't really American. The jazz singer, composer, arranger and pianist was more at home in Paris in the 1950s and London in the 1960s. Classically trained as a child, she switched to jazz in high school. After graduation in the early 1940s, Dearie moved to Manhattan and ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More

Read "New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from the JOI (Jazz Outreach Initiative) Jazz Orchestra, Luis Russell and Grace Garland, plus birthday shoutouts to Blossom Dearie, Ma Rainey, Rebecca Martin, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ahmad Jamal, King Pleasure, Enrique Villegas, Shirley Scott And More

Read "Ahmad Jamal, King Pleasure, Enrique Villegas, Shirley Scott And More" reviewed by David Brown


Join us for another week of the Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out, where ever the music takes us. Each week we explore the elements of jazz form a historical perspective. This week we take a look at “Moody's Mood for Love," remember Ahmad Jamal, check out a new archival release form Shirley Scott, judge a ...


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