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May I Come In

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This is my favorite Blossom Dearie album -- I love her Verve stuff, but I like this lightly swinging collection with an orchestra by Jack Marshall even more. The songs are also fantastic -- "Something Happens to Me," "When Sunny Gets Blue," "Quiet Nights," "Don't Wait Too Long" -- and that's just the beginning! Definitely a must-have for any Dearie fan. My only problem with this CD is it's length...it clocks in at just under 29 minutes.

Blossom Dearie's charm comes through all of her music and this CD is a winner. Each song shows her wonderful taste for quality compositions with great lyrics. "Put on a Happy Face" is my personal favorite but every song is outstanding. This CD is a great introduction to an immensely talented yet highly underrated musician.

Although I like Blossom with the piano, bass and drums, this post-Verve release from 1964 complete with orchestra fills out the sound more brilliantly. The opening number "Something Happens To Me" is infectious.

A friend introduced me to Blossom Dearie through this album. The serene blonde swathed in mink on the cover was one thing, but when I let her soft, sweet voice slip out of the album (yes, it was that long ago), my heart went "ping!" and that was the end of if for me.

I later chased her down in performance at The Ballroom in New York's Greenwich Village. She sang and glowed -- no, twinkled -- accompanying herself while reigning entirely over the room with respectable musicality. We talked a bit afterward, my being a doofus, and she signed something on paper for me which I hurried home and framed. There's just no other such thing as Blossom Dearie, and this is the album that proves it.

Enjoy the small, tight jazz orchestra. It is impeccably attuned to her style, to her individualized voice, to her talent. The arrangements are sweet and rhythmic and happy. The lyrics of many of the tunes she selected to perform are witty and provocative and stylish, very ahead of the ethos of 1964, the year it was recorded in Capitol Records' Studio A in Los Angeles. (That's the skyscraper designed to look like a stack of vinyl record platters. Should they rebuild for the CD age?)

Note the smoking sax section and how it punctuates many of Miss Blossom's melodies, and how she plays along on her piano almost undiscernably most of the time, emerging now and then like a sudden beam of light. Most distinctively, she creates through her scant 28 minutes of work here a blessed time capsule of jazz which -- for me -- is bewitching.

God bless you, Miss Blossom Dearie (and it is her real Scottish name)! And, wow!, what a talent! May I come in?

that is how good it is. it is a classic. essential. go listen to a bit and hear for yourself.
go on now. it will do you a world of good, I promise.
and you deserve it, right?!

This is a classic reissue of a former lp, and it features Miss Blossom Dearie sounding rather cheeful and uplifting 12 pop and jazz standards with teh help of Jack Marshall's orchestra. Dearing's litling and girlish voice is charming in the big band setting, making this a perfect cd for playing when having "lounge" parties.

NOT the best Blossom recording I've heard so far, but I'm a jazz fan and I prefer her in a jazzier context (with Ray Brown on bass and , I don't know, Jo jones on drums)...
But this is still very nice and easy listening... Actually, "Corcovado" from this album makes me wonder whether she ever recorded a bossa nova album... If she didn't, it's a pity!
Her unique naivete of voice would go well there...

Tasteful blend of traditional pop and jazz - that's what I think of this album. Among the musicians are Jack Sheldon, a very fine trumpeter as you can hear, Shelly Manne (dm), Joe MOndragon (b),
but there's no list of musicians (although the liner notes are otherwise OK

....you may. Blossom Dearie passed away last week....that sure brought back memories, from the Ed Sullivan show, and similar fare of the time. This album, cut in February, 1964, brings back more.....

Miss Dearie (yes, she used her real name) had a really catchy, "little girl" voice. The offering here catches her in perfect form, singing standards of the day. Some numbers, of course, are more familiar than others..."Don't Wait Too Long"..."I'm Old Fashioned"..."Put on A Happy Face"...plenty of other girls have done those, each in her own way. I like Miss Dearie's way. I'm afraid I didn't know the title cut, but it's quite good. "Quiet Nights" was done around the same time by Astrud Gilberto...both are very good (and, when I think about it, kind of similar).

All in all, a excellent record. Great voice, congenial repertoire, superb side-men, fine production. It is kind of short, but, that aside, thoroughly enjoyable. Requiem In Pace, Miss Dearie. You brought joy...

I am very satisfied with the CD May I Come In? by Blossom Dearie. I will be ordering new material in the near future from you.

This album is so refreshing... Blossom Dearie is such a delight