Dearie, clearly, was smitten with London and England of the era when the country was transitioning between the traditional old and the colorful, youthful new. Blossom Dearie died in 2009; Dusty ...

Blossom Dearie, the whimsical singer-songwriter with a pixie’s voice who entertained generations of nightclub goers, died Saturday morning after her health deteriorated in recent years. She was 82.

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 ...

Once upon a time, there were jazz singers and there were cabaret singers, and the twain simply did not meet. But, over the years, cabaret singers began to adopt jazz phrasing and mannerisms, and jazz ...

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 ...