Blossom Dearie (album)

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

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)

Professional ratings

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

Background

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

Reception

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

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

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