"I’m reading the Rifftides discussion about Blossom Dearie and Bill Evans," Dave Frishburg wrote soon after Dearie's passing in 2009, "and who influenced who. I’d like to add my comment: During the late sixties I played a couple weeks solo opposite the Bill Evans Trio at the Village Gate on Bleecker St, and had some conversations with Bill. I asked him how he came upon his piled-fourths voicing of chords, and his immediate answer was that he heard Blossom Dearie play that way and it really knocked him out. Then he did a little rave review of Blossom, naming her as one of his models of piano playing. It was such a surprising response that I never forgot it."

Vicki Brabham and The Jazz Kings pay tribute.