This was the fourth of six titles that Blossom Dearie would record for Verve in the mid to late 1950s. As James Gavin explains in his liner essay for the 2001 reissue, Norman Granz wanted to further ...

Friday 31 December 2004 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3) Julian Joseph is in conversation with Icelandic singer songwriter Emiliana Torrini to celebrate the work of vocal jazz legend Blossom Dearie. 1 hour ...

t was at an unnamed record label in 1973 that the last denial took place. Either the label was not interested or they were offering a paltry sum for the master tape. According to Blossom, she said, ...

Back in 1974, New Yorker jazz critic Whitney Balliet placed Blossom Dearie alongside Bobby Short and Mabel Mercer as part of the consummate triumvirate of supper-club singers who rule the upper ...

In her warming weekend reign at Danny's Skylight Room, Blossom Dearie continues to hold court with her sweet, sunny songfest. A Gotham fixture for five decades, she deserves some kind of human ...

Jazz singer and pianist Blossom Dearie, who died Feb. 7 at the age of 82, was a great singer with the tiniest of voices. The albums she recorded in the 1950s with Norman Granz of Verve Records are ...

This week's Piano Jazz is a rebroadcast of a show that first aired in 1985, presented as a tribute to Blossom Dearie, who died in 2009 at age 82. The aptly named singer and pianist Blossom Dearie had ...

Blossom Dearie, the singer and songwriter whose sweet soprano voice, harmonically innovative piano stylings and sophisticated performances made her a popular attraction in jazz and cabaret for nearly ...

Blossom Dearie, a classically trained pianist who transformed herself into a jazz singer with a unique baby-doll voice heard in New York and London cabarets for three decades, died of natural causes ...