Blue stars

Blue stars

Genres: freakbeat, Garage Rock, UK, Français, sexagenaire

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About Blue stars

Blue Stars is the name of (1) a French vocal group and (2) a United States indie band. (1) Blossom Dearie born in 1924 studied Western classical piano but switched to jazz in her teens. After high school Dearie moved to New York City to pursue a music career and began to sing in groups such as the Blue Flames (with the Woody Herman Orchestra) and the Blue Reys (with Alvino Rey's band) before starting her solo career. In 1924 she moved to Paris and in 1952 she formed a vocal group, the Blue Stars of Paris, which included Michel Legrand's sister, Christiane Legrand, and Bob Dorough. In 1954 the group had a hit in France with a French-language version of "Lullaby of Birdland". The Blue Stars would later evolve into the Swingle Singers. While in Paris she met her future husband, the Belgian flutist and saxophonist Bobby Jaspar. On her first solo album, released two years later, she plays the piano but does not sing. (2) (from the Blue Stars Instagram) Blue Stars is what happens when four friends from different corners of the Athens scene decide to start a band just for the fun of it. Claire Campbell, Andrea DeMarcus, Joe Rowe, and Dan Nettles, each a songwriter with their own respectable orbits, began meeting a few times a month to share new tunes, build parts for each other, and see what kind of light might spill out. It’s a side project, sure, but the kind that takes on a life of its own. Every voice changes the song, every song changes the band. The sound drifts somewhere between folk, pop, and dream logic, all a bit familiar but a little mysterious, like a melody you almost remember.

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