Blossom Dearie

Margrete Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and remembered for her girlish voice. One of the last supper club performers, she performed regular engagements in London and New York City over many years.

Dearie was born on April 28, 1924, in East Durham, New York to a father of Irish-Scottish descent and a mother of Scandinavian descent. As a child she studied classical piano but switched to jazz in her teens.

After high school Dearie moved to New York City to pursue a music career and began to sing in groups such as the Blue Flames (with the Woody Herman Orchestra) and the Blue Reys (with Alvino Rey's band) before starting her solo career.

She moved to Paris in 1952 and formed a vocal group, The Blue Stars of Paris, which included Michel Legrand's sister, Christiane Legrand, and Bob Dorough. In 1954 the group had a hit in France with a French-language version of "Lullaby of Birdland". The Blue Stars would later evolve into the Swingle Singers. While in Paris she met her future husband, Belgian flutist and saxophonist Bobby Jaspar. On her first solo album, released two years later, she plays the piano but does not sing.

Google's April Fools' joke went so wrong that it might have cost someone their job

Edit TechRadar 01 Apr 2016

We try to avoid as much of April Fools' day as possible on techradar. In fact, as a rule, we'd advise sleeping in until midday, that way you'll avoid all the terrible "jokes" entirely. We can imagine there are a few people at Google who would like to go to bed and start the day again though after its latest feature went south very quickly ... Not so funny ... Meanwhile, Abdus Salam wrote ... ....

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Singer Miley Cyrus performs in concert during her ‘Bangerz Tour’ at the Verizon Center on Thursday, April 10, 2014 in Washington D.C.

WN.com Week In Review For March 27-April 2, 2016

Edit WorldNews.com 01 Apr 2016

The end of the week comes with the start of a new month and a look back at the Top 5 most viewed stories on WN.com.Maybe you saw these stories when they first appeared on our pages – maybe you didn’t. Either way, let’s take a look back at the past week.. + A report claims Indian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday ... The animal was discovered by a biker ... – WN.com. ....

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Chairman of the board of Americans for Prosperity David Koch speaks at the Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

Inequality Even Before Birth And After Death: How The Koch Empire Impacted Me

Edit WorldNews.com 01 Apr 2016

Article by WN.com correspondent Dallas Darling After all of these years I have had to come to a dystopian realization that even before my birth and long after my death, the powerful and domineering Koch Empire has – and will continue – to impact me.Indeed, my grandfather was killed while working for Koch Industries ... Nor did my grandmother like to discuss his death ... Consequently, he fell 30 feet from a Koch Industries oil platform....

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South Korea says North fired missile, as US hosts nuclear summit

Edit The Times of India 01 Apr 2016

WASHINGTON ... Barack Obama confers with PM Narendra Modi during a working dinner with World leaders in White House on March 31 ... ....

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Porn and the Threat to Virility

Edit Time Magazine 31 Mar 2016

Noah Church is a 26-year-old part-time wildland firefighter in Portland, Ore. When he was 9, he found naked pictures on the Internet. He learned how to download explicit videos. When he was 15, streaming videos arrived, and he watched those. Often. Several times a day, doing that which people often do while watching that genre by themselves ... After the appeal of those waned, he moved on to the next level, more intense, often more violent ... ....

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Don't you forget about her: Molly Ringwald to perform jazzy concert in Oklahoma

Edit The Oklahoman 31 Mar 2016

Film fans who depended on the movies of writer-director John Hughes to ease their coming of age couldn't possible forget about Molly Ringwald ... From an early age, her father, pianist Bob Ringwald, instilled in her a love for jazz ... Q. I understand your father was a jazz pianist ... I started out loving Bessie Smith; then Ella (Fitzgerald), Billie (Holiday), Sarah (Vaughan), Nina Simone, Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day are a few favorites. Q....

Wendy Kirkland Quartet present Piano Divas as part of ‘Jazz in the Libraries’, Notts, April 2016.

Edit The Jazz Mann 29 Mar 2016

The quartet features the music of female jazz singer/pianists from Nina Simone, Blossom Dearie, Shirley Horn, right through to Eliane Elias, Norah Jones ......

Verve Records Celebrates 60 Years Label will celebrate landmark anniversary with releases throughout the year

Edit PR Newswire 24 Feb 2016

LOS ANGELES, Feb ... Fitzgerald will be honored with the release of Jazz at the Philharmonic ... Several classics will also make their debuts in HD digital audio and iTunes, including titles by Fitzgerald, Evans, Parker, Wynton Kelly, and Stan Getz ... The release schedule continues in May and June with more vinyl and digital reissues, including Getz/Gilberto and albums by Wes Montgomery, Blossom Dearie, Coleman Hawkins, and Anita O'Day ... ... ....

Bath International Music Festival 2016 - programme announcement.

Edit The Jazz Mann 24 Feb 2016

We have received the following press release;. BATH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016. FRIDAY 20 MAY – SUNDAY 29 MAY 2016. PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT ... Jazz pianist, Masterchef judge, The Observer critic and One Show foodie Jay Rayner brings singer Pat Gordon Smith and a top flight band to play tunes by Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Blossom Dearie and Dave Frishberg.  In the first half he relates stories about “My Restaurant Hell” ... ....

Meeting At Night Moonlight Saving Time

Edit The Jazz Mann 19 Feb 2016

Reviewed by. Ian Mann. With its skilful blend of jazz, folk, poetic and pop elements “Meeting At Night” is an attractively varied album with an intelligent mix of original and outside material. Moonlight Saving Time. “Meeting At Night”. (MSTCD002) ... Named after an obscure Blossom Dearie tune MST were initially influenced by the Flora Purim edition of Chick Corea’s Return To Forever ... ....

Ian Shaw: The Theory of Joy review – classy jazz singer in his element

Edit The Guardian 11 Feb 2016

4 / 5 stars. (Jazz Village) ... Idiosyncratic Americans Betty Carter and Mark Murphy felt like that, and so does the British singer Ian Shaw ... Blossom Dearie’s You Fascinate Me So mingles the singer’s candidly talkative delivery and graceful falsetto flights ... ....

'Schoolhouse Rock!' composer Bob Dorough, 92, brings his hipster bebop to South

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 28 Jan 2016

What those kids didn't realize was most of the series' best-loved songs - among them "Conjunction Junction," "Three Is a Magic Number," and "Electricity, Electricity" - were written and often performed by Bob Dorough, a hipster bebop vocalist who counted Miles Davis and Blossom Dearie among his collaborators....

Music to Soothe Our Collective Soul

Edit Huffington Post 24 Nov 2015

In times of violence and grief, we are too consumed with patching up the holes left on our hearts to remember to keep our eyes to the stars ... Music is a moral law ... Also some old jazz favourites from Nina Simone, Blossom Dearie, music by Diana Panton, Francien van Tuinen, Lauren Kinsella, music from Martin Hayes, Iarla � Lion�ird, Ernst Reijseger, Final Fantasy, Charlie Winston, Kate Rusby, Chris Thile, The Danish String Quartet.... ....

I feel closer to Dad when I wear his old clothes

Edit The Guardian 25 Jul 2015

They were married in 1952 ... But then would I also have to stop listening to his music – Thelonious Monk, Mose Allison, Blossom Dearie – and taking trick photographs like the multiple exposure he took of himself in the late 1960s that inspired my fascination with doppelgangers and the uncanny? The truth is, I have always felt rather pleased whenever my mum has said, looking at photographs of me, “Ooh, you look just like your dad.” ... ....

Esperanza Spalding reveals a new look and sound at the Palladium

Edit The Examiner 22 Jun 2015

Wearing white-framed glasses and her hair in long braids, she instead played rock-flavored unfamiliar original tunes on an electric bass guitar during her concert titled “Esperanza Spalding Presents. Emily’s D+ Evolution .” ... Spalding, whose sweet-toned voiced has been compared to jazz vocalist Blossom Dearie, also performed songs such as “Tambien,” about class division, and “Unconditional Love,” about relationships ... ....

'Cosmic Consultants' Starsky + Cox Hit New York With Musical Show For Summer Solstice

Edit Huffington Post 20 Jun 2015

The world's "psychics to the stars" will take to the New York stage just in time for the summer solstice. Real-life married couple Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox, known internationally as Starsky + Cox, put a comic (and musical) twist on the age-old art of astrology in "Starring ... What surprises can we expect from your show, "Starring"? ... It's all about archetype ... You might hear anything from X (the band) to Blossom Dearie in this show ... ....

Jay Rayner: 'Me playing is akin to watching the dog walk on his back legs'

Edit The Guardian 06 Jun 2015

Recently I had a surprise. the fitness monitor on my wrist announced I had passed my 10,000 footsteps-a-day goal before lunchtime. This was odd, given I’d spent the entire morning sitting down. Then I realised where I’d been sitting. at the piano, practising my left hand stride ... Needlepoint Magic (Vol V) – Blossom Dearie. Dearie had a will-’o-the-wisp voice that always sounds as if it’s on the edge of falling over but never does ... comments ... ....

Broadway's Ann Hampton Callaway to Guest Star In Gay Men's Chorus of S. Fla.'s June 27 Concert

Edit PR Newswire 26 May 2015

Facebook Twitter Pinterest. × ... in Bailey Hall at Broward College's Central Campus, 3501 Davie Road, in Davie, FL ... The writer and singer of the theme to the television series, The Nanny, she has composed more than 250 songs for television, Broadway, and Off Broadway and for many well known singers, such as Barbara Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Michael Feinstein, Blossom Dearie, and her sister, Liz Callaway ... RELATED LINKS ... ....

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Born: 1924-04-28

Died: 2009-02-07

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