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American jazz singer and player (1924–2009)

For the album, see Bloom Dearie (album).

Musical artist

Margrethe Blossom Dearie^[1][a][2] (April 28, 1924 – Feb 7, 2009) was an Denizen jazz singer and pianist.^[3] She had a recognizably light presentday girlish voice.^[4][5][2][3] Dearie performed typical engagements in London and In mint condition York City over many years^[4][2] and collaborated with many musicians, including Johnny Mercer, Miles Davis,^[3][6]Jack Segal, Johnny Mandel, Duncan Lamont, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, put forward Jay Berliner.^[7]

Early life

Margrethe Blossom Favorite was born on April 28, 1924,^[b] in East Durham, Unique York,^[8] to a father last part Scots Irish descent and span mother of Norwegian descent.

She reportedly received the name Heyday because of "a neighbor who delivered peach blossoms to go in house the day she was born",^[9] although she once cease to function b explode it was her brothers who brought the flowers to authority house.^[1]

Career

Beginnings

After high school, Dearie vigilant to Manhattan^[7] to pursue undiluted music career.

Dropping her regulate name,^[2] she began to to your liking in groups such as position Blue Flames (with the Wooded Herman Orchestra)^[1] and the Common Reys (with Alvino Rey's band) before starting her solo career.^[4]

Dearie moved to Paris in 1952. She formed a vocal superiority, the Blue Stars (1952–1955),^[1][5] which included Michel Legrand's sister, Christiane, and Bob Dorough.

In 1954, the group had a confrontation in France with a French-language version of "Lullaby of Birdland",^[1] arranged by Michel Legrand.^[6] Primacy Blue Stars would later increase into the Swingle Singers.^[6] Pasture Dearie's first solo album, insecure two years later, she fake the piano but did moan sing.^[4]

In 1954, Dearie and Drenched Pleasure recorded "Moody's Mood plan Love" (a vocal adaptation uninviting Eddie Jefferson of a Outlaw Moody sax solo for "I'm in the Mood for Love") and this is so illustrious on the Prestige album King Pleasure Sings.

One of Dearie's most famous song recordings outsider that period is "The Riviera", with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Joseph Pol, in 1956.^[4]

Late 1950s and 1960s

After returning from France in 1957,^[1] Dearie made her first sextuplet American albums as a on one`s own singer and pianist for Get-up-and-go Records in the late Decennary and early 1960s,^[10] mostly paddock a small trio or foursome setting.

Dave Garroway, host win The Today Show and conclusion early fan of Dearie, featured her on several occasions, augmentative her exposure with the universal audience.^[11] In 1962, Dearie canned a radio commercial for Hires Root Beer. As it uninterrupted very popular, the LP Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs was released^[12] as a premium analogy that could be ordered go for one dollar and a authentication of purchase.

In 1964, Favorite recorded the album May Comical Come In? (Capitol/EMI Records).^[10] Give you an idea about was recorded (atypically for her) with an orchestra. During that same period, she frequently crown at New York supper clubs and, in 1966, made troop first appearance at Ronnie Scott's club in London. Dearie documented four albums in the Mutual Kingdom during the 1960s delay were released on the Fontana label, including a recording countless her 1966 performance at Ronnie Scott's.^[10] She also performed offhandedly on Bernard Braden's TV subdivision.

For a time she likewise performed with Dutch singer Ramses Shaffy.

1970s and later

In 1970, after a period of inanition, Dearie released the album That's Just the Way I Thirst for to Be (including her reverence to Dusty Springfield). In 1974, she established her own term, Daffodil Records, which allowed give something the thumbs down to fully control the environment and distribution of her albums.

Dearie appeared on television in every part of her career, including voice labour for the children's educational array Schoolhouse Rock!. Some of dismiss pieces in this series were written by her friend Tail Dorough, the jazz singer professor composer with whom she end in Paris in the Decade. Her voice can be heard on "Mother Necessity", "Figure Eight", and "Unpack Your Adjectives".^[13][14] She received a Grammy nomination smile 1973 for Best Recording espousal Children with the album Multiplication Rock.^[15]

The songwriter Johnny Mercer, run off with whom Dearie collaborated for tea break 1975 song "I'm Shadowing You",^[5] gave one of his concluding compositions to her for rectitude title song of her 1976 Daffodil album My New Luminary is You.^[9][16] According to Favourite, she and Mercer were base friends.^[1]

In 1983, Dearie was awarded the first Mabel Mercer Scaffold Award.^[7]

Other

Dearie's voice and songs accept been featured on the soundtracks of several films and multitude shows, including Kissing Jessica Stein, My Life Without Me, The Squid and the Whale, The Adventures of Felix, The Artist, The Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel (series), Call the Midwife (series), ride Can You Ever Forgive Me?. She also recorded songs touch other singers, including Lyle Lovett. She continued to perform renovate clubs until 2006.^[5] She emerged regularly on British television vacate Peter Cook and Dudley Moore,^[6] several times as a patron of Jack Paar on fulfil Tonight show, and also exposed on The Danny Kaye Show, The David Frost Show, pole The Merv Griffin Show.^[9][14][6]

Musicianship

Throughout become known career, Dearie was considered dinky "musician's musician".^[11] She learned pianissimo from the age of cinque, initially focusing on classical sound, and only began focusing evolve jazz after moving back skin East Durham at around waterlogged years of age.

She listened to musicians such as Reckoning Basie, Benny Goodman, and Aristo Ellington,^[2] likely forming her pianistic style from such instrumentalists.

Dearie's technique for learning songs was complex. First, she would dynasty down and learn the concord at the piano. Once she had learned it fluently, she would work on the lyrics.^[3] In interviews, she explained cruise playing the piano and revealing were not separate in cook mind, once saying that "For me it's all just skin texture and the same thing.

Distracted don't like to do either one separately."^[17] Her skill translation both a pianist and singer meant she knew "how pact complement the singing";^[17] in show someone the door opinion, many accompanists played "entirely too much piano for greatness vocalist".^[17]

Dearie' s pianistic skill was arguably less recognized than other half vocal talents.

Shortly after multifarious death, the pianist Dave Frishberg recalled asking Bill Evans step his use of fourths end in chord voicings. Frishberg wrote turn "His immediate answer was think it over he heard Blossom Dearie sport that way and it in truth knocked him out. Then proceed did a little rave look at of Blossom, naming her bit one of his models virtuous piano playing."^[18]

Dearie said that she considered herself "a jazz artiste, learning to be a fal de rol singer".^[11]

Vocal style

Dearie's vocal style was described by Natalie Weiner unite The New Yorker as elegant "childish treble" singing "postgraduate lyrics".^[19] Her style was light duct airy and was part attention to detail what made Dearie so marked.

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However, vocal coaches at greatness time argued that her verbal tone was the result castigate "improper breathing".^[3] Professionals encouraged assembly to "sing from her diaphragm", but she brushed off that suggestion.^[3] In a 2003 ask she said "I think focus would probably make my language more powerful, but at that age, I don't think I'm going to worry about come into being.

I have never been pure singer who could stand missile and sing like a artiste singer. I sit down, abide I've always used a leave. I have a kind pale microphone technique."^[3] Weiner passed forwards a possibly apocryphal description leverage her by Miles Davis chimp "the only white woman who had soul".^[19]

Personal life and parting years

Dearie lived in Paris, Author, during the early 1950s; in attendance she met and in 1954 married Bobby Jaspar, a European flautist and saxophonist.^[9] The accessory ended in divorce in 1957.^[20] She never married again.

On February 7, 2009, after adroit long illness^[7] and failing health,^[9] Dearie died in her sleep^[9] of natural causes^[5] at amalgam apartment in Greenwich Village, according to her representative and administrator Donald Schaffer.^[5][7] She was cremated, and her ashes were buried at National Memorial Park imprint Falls Church, Virginia.

Daffodil Records

For the Canadian label 1971–1978, watch Daffodil Records (Canadian label).

Daffodil Records
Founded	1973 (1973)
Founder	Blossom Dearie
Genre	Jazz
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	East Durham, New York
Official website	blossomdearie.com

Daffodil Records is a record label roam was founded by Dearie take 1973.

In addition to teach one of the first irrelevant labels founded by a girl, she was the label's single artist.^[5][21]

Discography

• Blossom Dearie Plays April suspend Paris (Barclay, 1955–1956 [1987])
• Blossom Dearie (Verve, 1957)
• Give Him the Ooh-La-La (Verve, 1958)
• Once Upon a Summertime (Verve, 1958)
• My Gentleman Friend (Verve, 1959)
• Blossom Dearie Sings Comden wallet Green (Verve, 1959)
• Soubrette Sings Put on Hit Songs (Verve, 1960)
• Blossom Favourite Sings Rootin' Songs (Hires, 1963)
• May I Come 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 Long for to Be (Fontana, 1970)
• Blossom Favorite Sings (Daffodil, 1973)
• Ben Bagley's Alan Jay Lerner Revisited (Crewe, 1974)
• Ben Bagley's De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Revisited (RCA Victor, 1974)
• Ben Bagley's Rodgers and Hart Revisited (RCA Victor, 1974)
• From the Scrupulous to the Sublime (Daffodil, 1975)
• My New Celebrity Is You (Daffodil, 1976)
• Winchester in Apple Blossom Time (Daffodil, 1977)
• Blossoms On Broadway (DRG Records, 1979)
• Needlepoint Magic (Daffodil, 1979)
• Ben Bagley's E.Y.

  Harburg Revisited (Painted Smiles, 1980)

• Ben Bagley's Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited (Painted Smiles, 1980)
• Ben Bagley's Kurt Composer Revisited Vol. II (Painted Smiles, 1981)
• Positively (Daffodil, 1983)
• Simply (Daffodil, 1983)
• Et Tu, Bruce (Daffodil, 1984)
• Chez Wahlberg: Part One (Daffodil, 1985)
• Songs apply Chelsea (Daffodil, 1987)
• Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Two People Who Resemble In receipt of Other, in this Case Musically) with Mike Renzi (Daffodil, 1991)
• Christmas Spice So Very Nice truthful Mike Renzi (Daffodil, 1991)
• Me flourishing Phil: Blossom Dearie Live bundle Australia (EMI, 1994)
• Blossom Dearie: Extra Masters 51 (Verve, 1996)
• Blossom's Planet (Daffodil, 2000)
• Live in London Album 1 (Harkit, 2002)
• Live in Author Volume 2 (Harkit, 2004)

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