Blossom Dearie - The Complete Recordings 1952-1962 (4CD Box set) (2014)

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Artist: Blossom Dearie
Title: The Complete Recordings 1952-1962
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Enlightenment EN4CD9028
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 68:32, 77:18, 71:37, 70:09
Total Size: 1.22 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc: 1
1. Moody'S Mood For Love
2. Lullaby Of Birdland
3. Tout Bas (Speak Low)
4. Gina
5. Plus Je T'Embrasse (Heart Of My Heart)
6. Toute Ma Joie (That'S My Girl)
7. Les Lavandieres Du Portugal (The Portuguese Washerwomen)
8. Mister L'Amour (Mister Sandman)
9. En 1920 (In 1920)
10. Embrasse Moi Bien (Hold Me Close)
11. Lettre A Virginie (Letter To Virginia)
12. La Danse Du Baiser (The Kissing Dance)
13. Mambo Italiano
14. Old Devil Moon
15. Autumn In New York
16. Flamingo
17. There Will Never Be Another You
18. The Continental
19. The Boy Next Door
20. They Can'T Take That Away From Me
21. Moonlight Saving Time
22. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
23. April In Paris
24. Blue Moon
25. Down In The Depths

Disc: 2
1. Deed I Do
2. Loverman
3. Everything I'Ve Got
4. Comment Allez Vous
5. More Than You Know
6. Thou Swell
7. It Might As Well Be Spring
8. Tout Doucement
9. You For Me
10. Now At Last
11. I Hear Music
12. Wait Till You See Her
13. I Won'T Dance
14. A Fine Spring Morning
15. Just One Of Those Things
16. Like Someone In Love
17. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
18. They Say It'S Spring
19. Try Your Wings
20. Bang Goes The Drum (And You'Re In Love)
21. The Riviera
22. The Middle Of Love
23. Plus Je T'Embrasse
24. Give Him The Ooh-La-La
25. Let Me Love You
26. I Walk A Little Faster

Disc: 3
1. Tea For Two
2. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
3. Moonlight Saving Time
4. It Amazes Me
5. If I Were A Bell
6. We'Re Together
7. Teach Me Tonight
8. Once Upon A Summertime
9. Down With Love
10. Manhattan
11. Doop-Doo-De-Doop (A Doodlin' Song)
12. Our Love Is Here To Stay
13. Lucky To Be Me
14. Just In Time
15. Some Other Time
16. Dance Only With Me
17. I Like Myself
18. The Party'S Over
19. How Will He Know
20. It'S Love
21. Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me
22. Lonely Town

Disc: 4
1. Guys And Dolls
2. Confession
3. Rhode Island Is Famous For You
4. To Keep My Love Alive
5. Too Good For The Average Man
6. The Gentleman Is A Dope
7. Always True To You In My Fashion
8. Napoleon
9. Life Upon The Wicked Stage
10. The Physician
11. Love Is The Reason
12. Buckle Down, Winsocki
13. Little Jazz Bird
14. Gentleman Friend
15. It'S Too Good To Talk About Now
16. Chez Moi
17. You Fascinate Me So
18. You'Ve Got Something I Want
19. Boum!
20. L'Etang
21. Hello Love
22. Someone To Watch Over Me

Jazz Vocalist and Pianist Blossom Dearie, her real name, was born in the little village of East Durham, in the Catskill Mountains of New York state. Her older brothers heralded her arrival by filling the house with pear blossoms, and she was named Blossom Margrethe(after her mother)Dearie. She was proudly of Scottish(Dearie) and Norwegian ancestry. At the age of two she was able to pick out songs on the family piano, and spent most of her young years finding laps to sit on at the piano to do just that. Debussy's Afternoon of the Faun was a favorite. Her mother remarked that unlike most children who would bang at the keys when in front of a piano, Blossom thoughtfully played songs from ear and memory. Lessons began around age five and she studied classical music until her teens. She was encouraged to enter the Peabody Conservatory but switched to jazz and, influenced by what she called, “the wonderful music of the time,” played throughout high school.

In the late 1940s, Blossom traveled to New York City where she spent time in vocal groups with bandleaders like Alvino Rey's Blue Reys, and Woody Herman's Blue Flames, and also accompanied other singers as well as played in between headlining acts at New York clubs. She was there for the Birth of the Cool, hanging in Gil Evans apartment with Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Her first recordings were playing piano on an Annie Ross record. Blossom marked the starting point of her career as 1950 when she sat down and paired piano, with voice, in a little club called the Chantilly in Greenwich Village. Her friend Tony Bennett stopped in often.

Blossom Dearie - The Complete Recordings 1952-1962 (4CD Box set) (2014)

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