Thursday, 1/7/10

A vocal coach can help with many things—intonation, breathing, range—but not the most important thing: personality.

Blossom Dearie, “Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” live (TV broadcast), early 1960s

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[Blossom Dearie’s voice] would scarcely reach the second storey of a doll’s house.—Whitney Balliett

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[Blossom Dearie’s] the only white woman who ever had soul.—Miles Davis