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Blossom-ing!

By Roberta Donnay

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Roberta’s Blues; Peel Me a Grape; Just One of Those Things; Inside a Silent Tear; Plus Je T’Embrasse; Someone to Watch Over Me; Moonlight Savings Time; A Paris; The Party’s Over; If I Were a Bell; Spring in Manhattan; Unless It’s You; You Fascinate Me So; I Wish You Love; It Amazes Me; Put on a Happy Face.

Roberta Donnay: Blossom-ing!

by Jack Bowers
November 8, 2022

Blossom-ing! is vocalist Roberta Donnay's tribute to one of the most memorable jazz singers who ever lived, Blossom Dearie. She does so via sixteen songs associated with Dearie including Billie Holiday's “Billie's (or Blossom's) Blues," retitled here “Roberta's Blues." After leading with that one, Donnay lends her tremulous little-girl voice (eerily similar to Dearie's) to one ...