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...solo. On several tracks he is joined by vocalist Vicki Doney for duets clearly inspired by his “Schoolhouse” sessions with Blossom Dearie. Doney rises to challenge quite well, bringing a mischievousness to “The Good Little Girl” that Dearie probably would...
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The Epoch Times
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22346/
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...yielded Springsteen's "I'm On Fire" set to the groove of "Take Five." For Saturday's gig, Naylor is paying tribute to Blossom Dearie, the great jazz singer, pianist and composer who died in February at the age of 84. With her small, pliant voice, superlative...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2009527399_naylor24.html?syndication=rss
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Devious ditties ... we want songs that like to kidnap puppies for their fur. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
What a great week. Every one of my adolescent phases was revisited, from pretending to be a "mod" aged 11 – even though I had no
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jul/16/readers-recommend-cruel-songs
Blossom Dearie performing what for me matches her persona - Duke Ellington's 'Sophisticated Lady'
Composed by Schwartz-Dietz Arranged by Blossom Dearie From 1948 Musical Inside USA
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...jingle. But Armstrong - serenading a horse! - renders it with such gusto, pure joy is the result. ONCE UPON A SUMMERTIME, Blossom Dearie (“Once Upon a Summertime,’’ 1957). Mercer’s jocularity coexisted with a deep strain of melancholy. The latter is on display...
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/06/28/13_of_johnny_mercer8217s_most_memorable_songs?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Music+news
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Kat Edmonson may be a young jazz singer, but she is already a confident interpreter of song. Her debut album, "Take to the Sky," brims with originality. But first her pipes. It is tempting to compare her to other young chanteuses like Madeleine Peyroux,
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2009/06/15/kat_edmonson_take_to_the_sky?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today%27s+paper+A+to+Z
delicious song from great/small pianist crooner
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... Composer Michael Barr, whose songs were recorded by artists including Barbra Streisand and Blossom Dearie, died May 19 in Hollywood of complications from diabetes. He was 82. Barr's early jazz composition "Kicks" was recorded by June Christy and Billy May...
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Variety
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The first thing that comes to mind when listening to Hilary Kole's solo debut, Haunted Heart, now out on the Justin Time label, is amazement that it's a debut album. Her crystal-clear voice and perfect timing, combined with some solid backing from a
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Blogcritics.org
http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-hilary-kole-haunted-heart/
A song about the advantages of being an understated person, as personified by the late, great Blossom Dearie. A new cabaret song performed by Barb Scheffler, April 27, 2009, in Toronto. Words and music by Jill Leger.
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...NYC. Even many fans of this wonderful and delicate jazz stylist missed the announcement of her passing--merely because Blossom Dearie has always been considered a cult type of singer. Because of this, much of the media overlooked a mention of her passing,...
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Associated Content
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EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN can be heard every Sunday 9-11 PM(ET) over WBAI 99.5 FM and on the Int ernet at: www.wbai.org
TUNE IN!
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
9:00PM-11:00PM
This Sunday on EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN we feature the music of CHARLES
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=50873
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout, Laura Demanski (otherwise known as Our Girl in Chicago, or "OGIC" for short), and Carrie Frye (who signs her
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/04/tt_so_you_want_to_see_a_show_188.html
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...who has seen me before knows that I have always included some songs of hers in my shows and asked, “Does anyone here know Blossom Dearie’s music?” Each time, a few more people raise their hands. I plan to start the show at Yoshi’s SF with “May I Come In?”,...
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
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I do not own any of the audio included in this video. This is created in appreciation of the artist. This is dedicated to all of my friends in music. - Curumina1
I do not own any of the audio included in this video. Remix by Stephane Pompougnac, Variety Lab Hôtel Costes, Vol. Quatre This is created in appreciation of the artists and dedicated to all of my friends in music. Thank you... Curumina1
Excellent remix by Stephane Pompougnac, Variety Lab, from the cd.. "Hôtel Costes, Vol. Quatre" The voice of "Blossom Dearie" is sampled within this track... BD is an excellent jazz singer, and her version of "I Like London in the Rain" (the original) is also available. This video is created in appreciation of the artists... (I do not own this music or the related materials for the photomontage.) This is my first video, and it's dedicated to my friends in music. Hope you enjoy, and thank you ...
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout, Laura Demanski (otherwise known as Our Girl in Chicago, or "OGIC" for short), and Carrie Frye (who signs her
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/04/tt_almanac_1402.html
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It is hard to imagine Louis Armstrong sharing a bill with such quintessentially English vaudevillians as Max Miller, the "cheeky chappie" whose loud suits and blue humor were as familiar to his audiences as Armstrong's handkerchiefs and high Cs were to
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/04/tt_across_the_water.html
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The divine Miss D, who died in February aged 84, was a singer-vocalist of supreme wit and subtlety who combined camp charm with expert swing. This fabulous-value double CD collects together four LPs from the 1950s with a bonus version of King
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-blossom-dearie-four-classic-albums-plus-avid-1667393.html
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Blossom's music exuded a sparkling kind of elegance and quick wit. Hers was the kind of jazz you could imagine in the really good Woody Allen movies. She was the Dorothy Parker of jazz.
Blossom Dearie, the inimitable jazz singer with the little girl
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PopMatters
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout, Laura Demanski (otherwise known as Our Girl in Chicago, or "OGIC" for short), and Carrie Frye (who signs her
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/04/tt_so_you_want_to_see_a_show_187.html
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The page proofs of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong will be sent to me on April 24. At that point I'll have a month to make my final corrections. Then I'll be done--really, really done. It can't happen soon enough. I've read through the manuscript so
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/04/tt_up_and_down_up_and_down.html
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout, Laura Demanski (otherwise known as Our Girl in Chicago, or "OGIC" for short), and Carrie Frye (who signs her
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/04/tt_almanac_1396.html
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That shopworn description “songbird” applies to the jazz singer and pianist Daryl Sherman not only because she has a sweet, little-girl lilt embodied in her voice, but also because her musical spirit belongs to an era when jazz singing was an
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/arts/music/01sher.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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...what music he's been checking out. "I've been listening to the last Elbow album and Imogen Heap and (late jazz singer) Blossom Dearie" he says. "I actually checked my iTunes the other day because it tells you what you’ve played the most, and the most played...
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Entertainment Weekly
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May I Come In ? Blossom Dearie Capitol 1964
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...hear: "I Like You, You're Nice", "I'm Hip", "Peel Me, A Grape", "I'm Shadowing You", "Hey John", "Once Upon A Summertime", "Dearie's Blues", "Rhode Island Is Famous For You", "Bye Bye, Country Boy", "Let Me Love You", "Lovin' In The Present Tense", "Bobby...
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Music_Of_Blossom_Dearie_More_To_Be_Heard_On_EOINA_20090226
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In a Feb. 9 obituary about the singer Blossom Dearie, The Associated Press erroneously reported her birthdate and age. She was born on April 28, 1924, not on April 29, 1926, and was 84, not 82.
In a Feb. 9 obituary about the singer Blossom Dearie, The
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The Seattle Times
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... The Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to share information, experiences and observations about what's in the news. Some of the comments may be reprinted elsewhere in the site or in the newspaper. We encourage lively, open debate on the i...
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/921572.html
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...1924, not on April 29, 1926, and was 84, not 82. In addition, her full name was Margrete Blossom Dearie, not Marguerite Blossom Dearie, according to her representative, Donald Schaffer. Comments are subject to the site's terms of use and do not necessarily...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Copyright 2009, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
NEW YORK — In a Feb. 9 obituary about the
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Rocky Mount Telegram
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...erroneously reported her birthdate and age. She was born on April 28, 1924, not on April 29, 1926, and was 84, not 82. In addition, her full name was Margrete Blossom Dearie, not Marguerite Blossom Dearie, according to her representative, Donald Schaffer....
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Elizabeth City Daily Advance
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...bastion of beautiful music from the archives of the Great American Songbook is wholeheartedly advised to stay home with a Blossom Dearie CD. There are no surprises in the agony on display here, and you will not hear a single classic by Kern, Porter, Berlin...
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New York Observer
http://208.122.50.172/2009/o2/theater/screeching-betty-buckley-bombs-feinstein-fiasco
This is a remembrance of Blossom Dearie who died recently, and I find the song 'I'm Hip' most appropriate as a description of her.
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...few nice tributes from around the music blogosphere.New York radio station, WFMU, says of Lux on their Beware Of The Blog : Blossom Dearie may not have gotten the acclaim of her contemporaries, but her childlike voice and impeccable taste charmed many a hardened...
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BlogHer
http://www.blogher.com/blossom-dearie-and-lux-interior
brilliant transformation of an ordinary charles aznavour song into a fabulous and very personnal blossom dearie interpretation
lovely melody by blossom dearie, beautiful words by the one and only johnny mercer, recorded in 1973
1975 minor masterpiece: best versions are by frank sinatra (first with gordon jenkins' direction and arrangement, second even better with just bill miller on piano), both were taken off youtube after a year and a half of continuous international viewing .. .. ..... here's hoping blossom's own treasured interpretation will remain here for a little while ...
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...church, which is also where prototypical powerhouses Etta James, Whitney Houston, and Tina Turner developed their chops. Blossom Dearie obviously didn't come from the gospel or rock traditions. She was more aligned with male contemporaries who also prized...
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/02/15/no_need_to_shout?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Music+news
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...Dearie, 82, 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 Saturday at her Manhattan home. No cause of death was given. Marguerite Blossom...
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Philly.com
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...is the singer, not the song. In lesser hands, this 1925 standard sounds like it comes straight from Squaresville, but Blossom Dearie’s languid 1958 interpretation teases out all the sensual underpinnings of the song’s imagined domestic idyll. She makes a couplet...
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The A.V. Club
http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/avclub/daily/~3/538659922/
A message from Blossom.
Blossom Dearie (1956) Thank you Blossom; we love you, and we will miss you. R.I.P, Blossom...
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...a tiny, girlish voice, and an intimate coyness of delivery that sometimes sounded too silly to be serious, Blossom Dearie had one of the most distinctive vocal sounds in jazz and popular music. Singers from Cleo Laine to Kylie Minogue say they have been influenced...
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5711400.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=1972202
Blossom Dearie - The Shadow of Your Smile, from her 1966 LP "Blossom Time at Ronnie Scotts." In Memoriam.
Sings Rootin' Songs (1963) Thank you Blossom; we love you, and we will miss you. R.I.P, Blossom...
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...central to the well-being of Native American families and the prosperity of tribes all across this country.” Blossom Dearie, the jazz pixie with a little-girl voice and pageboy haircut who was a fixture in New York and London nightclubs for decades, died on...
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Knowledge Is Power
http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/clank3/
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...to perform her music," Schaffer said. "She had impeccable taste." Born April 29, 1926, in East Durham, N.Y., Marguerite Blossom Dearie dropped her first name to bolster a musical career that began with early training in piano and moved to jazz vocals. By the...
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