Jazz singer Blossom Dearie died in her sleep aged 82 on February 7. She was a fixture during her career in cabarets in London and New York, where she moved in the mid-1940s, and has been a featured singer on film soundtracks, including Kissing Jessica Stein, My Life Without Me, The Squid and the Whale and The Adventures of Felix. Dearie has also recorded with various musicians, including Bob Dorough and Lyle Lovett. Her first six albums, released with Paris' Verve Records from 1956 to 1960 after moving to the city, are today remembered as cult classics.
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