Born close to the middle of New York state in 1924, Blossom Dearie wasn't really American. The jazz singer, composer, arranger and pianist was more at home artistically in Paris in the 1950s and then London in the 1960s. Record companies here didn't know what to do with her, and audiences here even into the 2000s didn't get her. She was an exquisite exp…
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