Now that we mend our nets and wait at stoplights and do whatever else it is we think we may seem to be doing, without the angelic Blossom Dearie (deceased, February 2009), we are challenged to forebear the malevolent monsters without her armature: tenderness and truth. Joe Rico, jazz scholar and producer, had a radio show on WUWU Buffalo in the early 1980s. He pointed out that Blossom would not sing in venues that permitted smoking, at some peril to her professional career. May I suggest to those in my particular lifeboat, that sweet beneficence obtains from the strange and wonderful Joan Bender.
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