After the war Hellman began performing regularly in New York venues including Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, Le Ruban Bleu, Upstairs at the Downstairs, and, as a member of Ving Merlin's All-Girl Band, at the Hotel New Yorker.
[3] In 1959 Harmony LP, a subsidiary of Columbia Records, released her album Holiday for Harp, on which Hellman led a jazz quartet with a "pleasing night club sound".
In addition to jazz, their repertoire ranged from "the baroque of Bach, Scarlatti, Corelli and Couperin through the lush music of Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Debussy, to arrangements of contemporary composers such as the Beatles and Bobbie Gentry.
[3] They toured extensively, including India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Russia, and Hong Kong, and regularly played on Tuesday nights at the Village Gate nightclub for 28 years, until the club closed in 1994.
[7] Daphne Hellman died at the age of 86 on August 4, 2002 in New York City a few weeks after suffering a fall near her home on East 61st Street.