and final years Dearie lived in Paris during the early 1950s; here she met and in 1954 married Bobby Jaspar, a Belgian flautist and saxophonist. The marriage ended in divorce in 1957. She never married again. On February 7, 2009, after a long illness and failing health, Dearie died in her sleep of natural causes at her apartment in Greenwich Village, according to her representative and manager Donald Schaffer. She was survived by her older brother Barney as well as a nephew and a niece. She was cremated, and her ashes were interred in Falls Church, Virginia. Discography Blossom Dearie (Verve, 1957) Give Him the Ooh-La-La (Verve, 1958) Once Upon a Summertime (Verve, 1958) My Gentleman Friend (Verve, 1959) Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green (Verve, 1959) Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs (Verve, 1960) Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs (Hires, 1963) May I Come In? (Capitol, 1964) Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's (Fontana, 1966) Sweet Blossom Dearie (Fontana, 1967) Soon It's Gonna Rain (Fontana, 1967) That's Just the Way I Want to Be (Fontana, 1970) Blossom Dearie Sings (Daffodil, 1973) Ben Bagley's Alan Jay Lerner Revisited (Crewe, 1974) Ben Bagley's De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Revisited (RCA Victor, 1974) Ben Bagley's Rodgers and Hart Revisited (RCA Victor, 1974) From the Meticulous to the Sublime (Daffodil, 1975) My New Celebrity Is You (Daffodil, 1976) Winchester in Apple Blossom Time (Daffodil, 1977) Needlepoint Magic (Daffodil, 1979) Ben Bagley's E.Y. Harburg Revisited (Painted Smiles, 1980) Ben Bagley's Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited (Painted Smiles, 1980) Ben Bagley's Kurt Weill Revisited Vol. II (Painted Smiles, 1981) Positively (Daffodil, 1983) Simply (Daffodil, 1983) Et Tu, Bruce (Daffodil, 1984) Chez Wahlberg: Part One (Daffodil, 1985) Songs of Chelsea (Daffodil, 1987) Blossom Dearie Plays April in Paris (Barclay, 1987) Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Two People Who Resemble Each Other, in this Case Musically) with Mike Renzi (Daffodil, 1991) Christmas Spice So Very Nice with Mike Renzi (Daffodil, 1991) Me and Phil: Blossom Dearie Live in Australia (EMI, 1994) Live in London Volume 1 (Harkit, 2002) Live in London Volume 2 (Harkit, 2004) Blossom's Planet (Planet One) (Daffodil, 2005) References Notes Further reading Balliett, Whitney (1988). American Singers: 27 Portraits in Song. New York, Oxford University Press. . External links Official website 1924 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women pianists 20th-century American pianists American women jazz singers American expatriates in France American jazz singers American