Springtime brings warming temperatures, a spirit of renewal, and a bunch of jazz tunes with the season in mind. Listen to these songs as you gaze out your window at the last bit of snow, walk around a ...

Yes, Blossom was indeed her first name! She was a pioneer on both the piano and as a singer, and Eric Ajaye looks back at her ...

Eric Ajaye dissects the artistry of the incredible singer and pianist Blossom Dearie, who was a key musician on the jazz ...

One of my favorite Blossom Dearie albums is That's Just The Way I Want to Be. Recorded in London in early 1970 for the European Fontana label, the album features all hip, pop originals, most of which ...

Blossom Dearie, the inimitable jazz singer with the little girl voice, died in early February of this year. Blossom—as I’ll always think of her, so perfect a name it was for her instrument—was a ...

This week's Piano Jazz is a rebroadcast of a show that first aired in 1985, presented as a tribute to Blossom Dearie, who died in 2009 at age 82. The aptly named singer and pianist Blossom Dearie had ...

Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who helped pioneer vocalese in New York and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died on Saturday in ...

In her warming weekend reign at Danny's Skylight Room, Blossom Dearie continues to hold court with her sweet, sunny songfest. A Gotham fixture for five decades, she deserves some kind of human ...

Blossom Dearie, who has died aged 82, was one of the unique jazz voices of the second half of the 20th century. She was a cult, a musicians' musician, but her fame spread wider through television and ...

Blossom Dearie was probably an important part of the soundtrack of my childhood. I say “probably” because it is only now that I can reflect on the irony of hearing her wry and bittersweet singing at ...

Blossom Dearie, who died on February 7 aged 82, was one of the great interpreters of American song in the post-war era. She did not like to be described as a jazz singer (although she grew up in a ...