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TRACEY THORN OF EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL discusses Blossom Dearie's May I Come In? with Johnny Black.
How did you come to hear the 1964 Blossom Dearie album May I Come In?
Ben's dad. He had it and in fact the copy we now have at home is Ben's dad's old vinyl copy. It has some kind of cover line about 'Blossom Dearie swings easy for your pleasure.' It's great. I first heard it round at their house in Barnes about twenty five years ago.
Ben says that when he was young that record would go on every evening, you know? The kitchen was his dad's territory, so it would be dinner cooking, gin and tonics, Blossom Dearie on the stereo. I started hearing it as soon a I started going round their house.
It's not a record I play all the time probably because for me it feels a bit like it's always been there.
Did you like it when you first heard it?
Yeah, I did. Don't forget that was at the point when Ben and I were just beginning to discover jazz ourselves, and trying to think of how we could incorporate some of that into the music we were doing.
It was the style of stuff that we liked because it has that real simplicity. It's very pared down, not dissimilar in a way to the Astrud Gilberto records we were also listening to.
Blossom does Corocovado on the album
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How did you come to hear the 1964 Blossom Dearie album May I Come In?
Ben's dad. He had it and in fact the copy we now have at home is Ben's dad's old vinyl copy. It has some kind of cover line about 'Blossom Dearie swings easy for your pleasure.' It's great. I first heard it round at their house in Barnes about twenty five years ago.
Ben says that when he was young that record would go on every evening, you know? The kitchen was his dad's territory, so it would be dinner cooking, gin and tonics, Blossom Dearie on the stereo. I started hearing it as soon a I started going round their house.
It's not a record I play all the time probably because for me it feels a bit like it's always been there.
Did you like it when you first heard it?
Yeah, I did. Don't forget that was at the point when Ben and I were just beginning to discover jazz ourselves, and trying to think of how we could incorporate some of that into the music we were doing.
It was the style of stuff that we liked because it has that real simplicity. It's very pared down, not dissimilar in a way to the Astrud Gilberto records we were also listening to.
Blossom does Corocovado on the album