Blossom Dearie (album)

1957 studio album by Blossom Dearie

Blossom Dearie

Studio album by

Blossom Dearie

Released| April 1957
Recorded| September 11–12, 1956
Genre| Jazz, cool jazz
Label| Verve
Producer| Norman Granz, Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie chronology
| Blossom Dearie Plays "April in Paris"
(1956)  | Blossom Dearie
(1957)  | Give Him the Ooh-La-La
(1958)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|  [3]

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

## Background[edit]

Dearie recorded for the Barclay label in 1955 and 1956.[1] This eponymous album was her next recording as a leader.[1]

## Reception[edit]

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]

In 2019, record club Vinyl Me, Please. reissued the album on vinyl. This was the first time the album was re-issued onto vinyl in the United States since its release.[4]

## Track listings[edit]

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

CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release

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

## Personnel[edit]

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

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie AllMusic Review". AllMusic. AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 59\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 360\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. ^ Winistorfer, Andrew. "Everything You Need To Know About Our Blossom Dearie Reissue". Vinyl Me, Please. Offbeat Ventures, LLC. Retrieved 23 February 2022.

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Blossom Dearie

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

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* 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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