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Remembering Blossom Dearie

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 10. Feb, 2009 in Music, jazz

The great singer and pianist Blossom Dearie died on Saturday. I first discovered Blossom Dearie’s music in 2001, when I heard her song Manhattan in one of the musical interludes for a Fresh Air episode in the first weeks after 9/11. I had never heard Blossom Dearie and I was completely floored—by the lyrics, by [...]

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