Blossom Dearie

Blossom Dearie (born the April 28th, 1926) is a singer and American pianist of jazz, excelling particularly in the style bebop. She is known for her characteristic acute voice.

First steps

Blossom Dearie was born in East Durham, in the State of New York. Child, it studies the traditional piano before turning to the jazz to adolescence. After the college, she moves in New York to engage her career; over there, it starts to sing in various groups as The Blue Flames (with the Woody Hermann Orchestra ) and The Blue Reys (with the Alvino Rey' S Band ) before launching out in a career solo. In 1952 it moves with Paris and form a group of song, Blue Stars which is made known in France in 1954 with Lullaby off Birdland . It meets in the French capital her husband-to-be, the saxophonist and Belgian flutist Bobby Jaspar. On its first album solo, left two years later, she plays of the piano but does not sing. One of the most known songs of this period is The Riviera , written and composed by Cy Coleman and Joseph McCarthy Jr. in 1956.

End of the year 50 and the Sixties

Returned in the United States, the first six American albums of Dearie as a singer and pianist were recorded for Verve Records at the end of the Fifties and with beginning of the year 60, most of the time with trio or four-bit byte. In 1964, it records with an orchestra May I As In? . This album left under the label Capitol Records remains most known. At this period, Blossom frequently plays in the New Yorkean clubs where it refines and imposes its own style.

In 1966 it carries out its first appearance with the club Ronnie Scott of London. It records four albums in Great Britain, appeared under the label Fontana in the Sixties.

The Seventies and after…

In 1974, Dearie creates its own label, “Daffodil Records”, which allows him a better control in the recording and the distribution of its albums.

Its voice is made hear on many film original soundtracks. It also records with various musicians like Bob Dorough and Lyle Lovett.

Today it continues to play regularly in clubs of London and New York.

In May 2007, the Australian singer Kylie Minogue confession that Dearie was a source of inspiration for certain songs of its last album, to appear.

Discography

Within the framework of Blue Stars

  • The Blue Stars off France: Lullaby In Birdland and Other Famous Hits (EmArcy/Mercury, 1954)

Albums solo

  • Blossom Dearie Plays "April in Paris" (Barclay, 1956) - Piano only
  • Blossom Dearie Liveliness, 1956
  • Give Him The Ooh-La it (Liveliness, 1957)
  • Once Upon has Summertime (Liveliness, 1958) MGVS-6020
  • Sings Comden and Green (Liveliness, 1959)
  • My Gentleman Friend (Liveliness, 1959)
  • Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs (Liveliness, 1960)
  • Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs (DIW, 1963)
  • May I As In? (Capitol, 1964)
  • Blossom Time At Ronnie Scott' S (Fontana, 1966)
  • Sweet Blossom Dearie (Fontana, 1967)
  • Soon It' S Gonna Rain (Fontana, 1967)
  • That' S Just The Way I Want To Be (Fontana, 1970)
  • Blossom Dearie Sings (Daffodil, 1974)
  • 1975: From The Meticulous to the Sublimates (Daffodil, 1975)
  • My New Celebrity Is You (2 LPs, Daffodil, 1976)
  • Winchester In Apple Blossom Time (2 LPs, Daffodil, 1977)
  • Needlepoint Magic (Daffodil, 1979)
  • Simply vol. 6 (Daffodil, 1983)
  • Positively vol. 7 (Daffodil, 1983)
  • And You Bruce (Daffodil, 1984)
  • At Wahlberg (Daffodil, 1985)
  • Songs Of Chelsea (Daffodil, 1987)
  • Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Daffodil, 1991)
  • Christmas Spice So Very Nice (Daffodil, 1994)
  • Me and Phil (EMI, 1994)
  • Blossom' S Planet (Daffodil, 2000)
  • It' S Alright to Be Afraid - individual (Daffodil, 2003)

Compilations

  • Our Favorite Songs (Daffodil, 1996)
  • I' m Hip (Daffodil, 1998)

Collaboration with other artists

  • Rodgers & Binder Revisited Volume III
  • Kurt Weill Revisited Volume II
  • Frank Loesser Revisited
  • Cole Porter Revisited Volume IV
  • Irving Berlin Revisited
  • Hold One To Your Hats (Score Supplements)
  • Unpublished Cole Porter Volume II
  • Rodgers & Hart Revisited Volume IV
  • Harold Arlen & Vernon Duke Revisited Volume II
  • Ira Gershwin Revisited
  • Oscar Hammerstein Revisited
  • Arthur Schwartz Revisited
  • Vernon Duke Revisited
  • Rodgers & Binder Revisited Volume II
  • Alan Jay Lerner Revisited
  • Vincent Youmans Revisited
  • DeSylva, Brown & Henderson Revisited Volume I
  • Harold Arlen Revisited

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Its own label, Daffodil Records
  • detailed discography (English)

Category: Birth in 1926 Category: American singer

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