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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
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
Paula West and the Art of Making Art
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 ...
Maci Miller: Nine
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 ...
Our Man in Paris: An American Travelogue
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 ...
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 ...
New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More
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 ...
Ahmad Jamal, King Pleasure, Enrique Villegas, Shirley Scott And More
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 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie
All About Jazz is celebrating Blossom Dearie's birthday today! 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, ...
Take Five with Tamar Sagiv
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tamar Sagiv On May 9th, 2022, Tamar played her debut concert in Carnegie Hall. She started her cello studies at the age of 8 with her teacher Uri Chen in the Kfar Blum Music Center, a small village in the northern part of Israel At 14, she moved to Jerusalem to study at the Israeli ...
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