Monica marks Blossom Dearie's 100th birthday on this episode. The iconic singer and pianist carved out her own unique sound in an age when jazz vocalists reigned supreme - and we'll hear from some of ...

After listening to the live material collected on the six-CD box set Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-70 another, incongruous, marker comes to mind. When she speaks between songs – and ...

Blossom Dearie and Bob Dorough on one of their most requested CDs... NEEDLEPOINT MAGIC recorded live @ Reno Sweeney in New York City in 1979. Order it now at www.DaffodilRecords.com ...

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 ...

At the end of “On Broadway,” the first track on the 1966 album “Blossom Time – Blossom Dearie Live at Ronnie Scott’s,” pianist-singer Blossom Dearie addresses the audience, saying in a completely ...

Host Marian McPartland calls Dearie an "incandescent singer and pianist" whose "delicate, swinging style makes every song a musical gem." The... Blossom Dearie On Piano Jazz This week's Piano Jazz is ...

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 ...

Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who helped pioneer vocalese in New York and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died on Saturday in ...

Blossom Dearie — that's her real name — has been a fixture on the New York nightclub scene for decades. The singer and pianist is known for her girlish voice, unusual choice of material and ...

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, has died at 82. Dearie ...

However, Blossom Dearie (1924–2009) was not just about her voice (or her oft-commented on name). Her father was Scottish, her mother Norwegian. She was a classically trained pianist and, in time, a ...

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 ...