Slapback Guitar Records

I’m sadder than I thought I would be:

Blossom Dearie, the jazz pixie with a little-girl voice and pageboy haircut who was a fixture in New York and London nightclubs for decades, died on Saturday at her apartment in Greenwich Village. She was 84.

Enjoy Long Daddy Green

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One Man’s Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Records

To the best of my knowledge, little has been written about the life of the late jazz singer Beverly Kenney. Only Jonathan Schwartz’s article in the November 1992 issue of GQ came anywhere close to being comprehensive, and even that left a lot of questions unanswered. Most obviously, still dangling with a big question mark over it, is the cause of her suicide in 1960 when she was, if not THE Girl of the Year, at least A Girl…More

On Cesarean Birth
I curled by body small
in hiding
to escape the view
of those who sought to start the flow
of waters long since overdue.
And watched in horror
Cautious silver
part the roof of my Capri,
And heard the cry of anguished protest,
The first of many wrought from me.

 VIA

Beverly Kenney GQ mag November 1992

 

VIA