Sweetness, the flavor, it calms and soothes, it embellishes, and in its way, nurtures and ensures that bland stays well at bay. In a good cup of tea or a mug of hot chocolate or coffee, it is with the stirring-in of an enhancing sweetness that you and it become a purposefully determined blend and the action completes what will soon thereafter be a sensation that elicits a sense of whole. Sugar is sweet but it is just one way of sweetness’s being. The amount of it is where the artistry becomes the expert taste measurer. That artistry is in the tempering mode, channeling and measuring the defining ingredient element of the voice.
The sweetness of the distinct voice of Blossom Dearie is just right and is so right that very often, contemporary singers have attempted it. Their versions are truly sweet in their complimentary forays but Dearie owns the sound.
Listen to how she stirs her artistry into the music that surrounds her voice as it ensures, embellishes, and nurtures a unique musical flavor.