{"id":309,"date":"2012-03-31T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:49:36","slug":"music-blossom-dearie-swings-coolly-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/music-blossom-dearie-swings-coolly-perfectly\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Blossom Dearie swings coolly, perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lo-fi but enchanting, maybe the best piano+female vocal I&#8217;ve heard<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DoZd4GKzOdQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAt 0:39 the way she trills &#8220;surrey-with&#8221; and echoes the vibrato moments later in &#8220;fringe&#8221; is magic.\u00a0 From 1:35 on her swung notes in winking, blinking, if-yur thinkin&#8217; is right up there with Fred Astaire&#8217;s &#8220;Let the rain pitter-patter but it doesn&#8217;t really matter&#8221; on <a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mOZHVBbX3ro\">Isn&#8217;t This a Lovely Day<\/a>. And her phrasing of the lines at 3:52 is sublime.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is from the Jack Paar show in 1958. I&#8217;m so in love with it I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaoutlet.com\/jack-paar-dvds-2-disc-set-tv-shows-old-time-television-p-114.html\">ordered a DVD<\/a> of the show, but sadly the DVD&#8217;s audio quality isn&#8217;t much better. There&#8217;s <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vp_3AJHr5B0\">another version<\/a> of this Irving Berlin song on her album <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Once_Upon_a_Summertime\">Once Upon a Summertime<\/a>, but it somehow lacks the magic and has a redundant guitar part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeare-online.com\/quotes\/shakespeareonmusic.html\">Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>The Tempest<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo-fi but enchanting, maybe the best piano+female vocal I&#8217;ve heard At 0:39 the way she trills &#8220;surrey-with&#8221; and echoes the vibrato moments later in &#8220;fringe&#8221; is magic.\u00a0 From 1:35 on her swung notes in winking, blinking, if-yur thinkin&#8217; is right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/music-blossom-dearie-swings-coolly-perfectly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}