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Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie

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, ...

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Blossom Dearie: Sings Broadway

Blossom Dearie: Sings Broadway

Russ Garcia probably wasn't the best choice to arrange Blossom Dearie's 1960 album, Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs. The show tunes are dated for 1960 (most are from forgettable shows of the 1930s and '40s), many of the songs could be classified as novelty numbers, and the arrangements are too cute by half. In some respects, ...

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Blossom Dearie Sings - 45th Anniversary Edition with Bonus Tracks

Label: Daffodil Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: I'm Shadowing You; Saving My Feeling For You; Sunday Afternoon; Somebody New; I Like You, You're Nice; Baby You're My Kind; Home; Hey John; You Have Lived In Autumn; Flame To Fire; Baby You're My Kind -Work Lead; Home -Alternate Version; I Like You, You're Nice -Alternate Version; Home -Alternate Version

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Christmas with Blossom Dearie (single)

Label: Daffodil Records Inc.
Released: 2017
Track listing: Christmas

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Article: Album Review

Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra: Book Of Rhapsodies Vol. II

Read "Book Of Rhapsodies Vol. II" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


There have been several ensembles in the past couple of decades that delved into the novelty jazz recordings of the Thirties and Forties. In the Netherlands there have been The Beau Hunks and the Willem Breuker Kollektief and in this country there have been Don Byron's Bug Music group and Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra.

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Ralph Hepola

Read "Take Five with Ralph Hepola" reviewed by AAJ Staff


About Ralph Hepola Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the United States, Ralph Hepola studied piano before starting on the tuba at age twelve. At seventeen, he was chosen to play before the British Royal Family in the Manitoba All-Province Band at Brandon, Manitoba in Canada. While still in high school, Ralph began performing ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie

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, ...

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Article: Album Review

Sherri Roberts: Anybody's Spring

Read "Anybody's Spring" reviewed by Geannine Reid


Vocalist Sherri Roberts brings the joy and promise of new beginnings with twelve standards, that offer a spring theme with her 2017 release, Anybody's Spring. Selections come from the jazz compositions of Clifford Brown and Tadd Dameron to the standard and not-so-standard fare of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, and Blossom Dearie favorite Bob Haymes, the ...

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Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Ari (ImpressARIo) Silverstein

Read "Meet Ari (ImpressARIo) Silverstein" reviewed by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper


Some people are jazz aficionados. Then there's Ari Silverstein. Hooked from the moment he saw the light of jazz, was he content merely to listen? Not Impress-Ari-o! Once he was in, he was in all the way, from organizing concerts to getting his New York tour guide license in order to start shepherding tourists to his ...

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News: Radio

The Evolution Of Hipness With Gary G. Vercelli

The Evolution Of Hipness With Gary G. Vercelli

By Beth Ruyak We travel to the Crocker Art Museum for this week’s Sound Advice with CapRadio's jazz music director Gary Vercelli. “Cosmic Rays” by Charlie Parker Charlie Parker and other cutting edge bebop musicians had a profound influence on the beat poets. Parker was idolized by Kerouac and Ginsberg and Kerouac’s spontaneous prose was likened ...


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