Blossom Dearie (album)

Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie
Studio album by Blossom Dearie
Released	April 1957
Recorded	September 11–12, 1956
Genre	Jazz, vocal jazz, cool jazz
Label	Verve
Producer	Norman Granz, Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

Blossom Dearie is a studio album by Blossom Dearie that was recorded in 1956 and released in 1957. It was her first recording for Verve.

Background[]

This is Dearie's first American solo album. Already known for the group "Les Blue Stars" of France and their French version of "Lullaby of Birdland", Norman Granz personally invited her to record for Verve Records.^{[citation needed]}

Reception[]

In a positive retrospective review written for the CD release, AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow praises Dearie's voice, writing its "sincerity and sense of swing wins one over after a few songs" and her "piano playing is first class".^[1]

Track listings[]

"'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:11
"Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 2:45
"Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:27
"Comment allez-vous" (Murray Grand) – 2:10
"More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:25
"Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:59
"It Might as Well Be Spring" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) (sung in French) – 3:09
"Tout doucement" (Emile Jean Mercadier, Rene Albert Clausier) – 2:21
"You for Me" (Bob Haymes) – 2:13
"Now at Last" (Haymes) – 3:20
"I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:05
"Wait Till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:19
"I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:44
"A Fine Spring Morning" (Haymes) – 3:04

CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release

"They Say It's Spring" (Marty Clark, Haymes) – 3:22
"Johnny One Note" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:10
"Blossom's Blues" (Blossom Dearie) – 3:09

Personnel[]

Blossom Dearie – piano, vocals
Herb Ellis – guitar
Ray Brown – double bass
Jo Jones – drums

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie AllMusic Review". AllMusic. AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 59. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[AllMusic-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie AllMusic Review". AllMusic. AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

[RSJRG-2] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 59. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	Blossom Dearie (1956) Give Him the Ooh-La-La (1957) Once Upon a Summertime (1958) Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green (1959) My Gentleman Friend (1959) Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs (1960) Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs (1963) May I Come In? (1964) Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's (1966) Sweet Blossom Dearie (released 1967) That's Just the Way I Want to Be (1970) Simply (1982) Chez Wahlberg: Part One (1985) Songs of Chelsea (1988) Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Two People Who Resemble Each Other, in this Case Musically) (and Mike Renzi, 1991)
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