Although she never enjoyed the name recognition of a Billie Holiday or Sarah Vaughan, Blossom Dearie - her real name - was a respected jazz singer who was also well-known in cabaret. Dearie died of ...

When the jazz singer Blossom Dearie died recently at age 82, the New York Times described her as a “cult chanteuse,” explaining that the six Verve label albums she recorded in the late 1950s, “are ...

Dearie was a regular at 52d St. clubs and the salon apartment of arranger Gil Evans in the late 1940s. Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who ...

Blossom Dearie died.<BR><BR>Sadly, most people might recognize her today from her work on Schoolhouse Rock ("Mother Necessity" and "Figure Eight"). She had a sweet little voice but could really swing ...