‘Sweetness With A Knife Behind It’ – The Inimitable Blossom Dearie

“[Her] voice, girly, breathless, tentative, is her own twice. No one else would dare try to sing with it the way she did. It’s tempting to say her voice is a cross between Betty Boop’s and … whose? One writer said Chet Baker’s, which is perfect. She was cute, femme cotton candy drizzled with a contradictory syrup of opium and Bleecker Street espresso.”