One of the most distinctive voices in jazz over the last 40 years, Blossom Dearie, turns 82 today. She also happens to be one of my favourite jazz singers: she may not be a great scat singer with a powerful voice like Ella, but how can you not love that little girl voice of hers, coupled with her very personal way of delivering both standards and less well-known tunes.Here are just a few of her remarkable tracks on last.fm:
Blossom's Blues
'Deed I Do
I'm Hip
Those of you in US, you can actually listen to the above tracks in full; for those of you elsewhere, Canada for instance, here's just a little hint that I've been able to get last.fm (as well as napster web, hulu.com and video streams like CSI full episodes on NBC website) working with the help of a nice little commercial socks proxy at socksify.com for just $10/month. There's also a free plugin for Firefox called FoxyProxy which lets you enable a proxy only for certain predefined sites. There, I've said it.
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