Artist: Barbara Carroll
Album: This Heart of Mine
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: DRG Records
Released: 1994
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- The Way You Look Tonight (Kern-Fields) - 6:34
- I Wanna Be Yours (Coleman-Leigh) - 5:45
- Sweet Lilacs (Carroll) - 5:06
- On Second Thought (Coleman-Leigh)/Why Can't I? (Rodgers-Hart) - 6:01
- Lester Leaps In (Young) - 3:13
- Some Other Time (Bernstein-Comden-Green) - 6:34
- Rain Sometimes (Hamilton) - 4:23
- Whenever a Soft Rain Falls (Cowell) - 6:00
- It's Like Reaching for the Moon (Sherman-Lewis-Marqusee) - 4:19
- Never Let Me Go (Livingston-Evans) - 5:16
- In Some Other World (Carroll) - 6:41
- This Heart of Mine (Warren-Freed) - 6:07
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- Personnel:
- Barbara Carroll - vocals, piano
- Art Farmer - flumpet
- Jerome Richardson - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Frank Tate (#1,12), Jay Leonhart (#2-11) - bass
- Joe Cocuzzo - drums
This is one of the better later recordings by Barbara Carroll. A bop-based pianist and a cabaret singer, Carroll balanced her two very different skills quite well throughout the date. There are a few instrumentals along the way (including "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Lester Leaps In") which team her with Jerome Richardson (heard on tenor and alto) and Art Farmer (on the trumpet) along with drummer Joe Cocuzzo and either Jay Leonhart or Frank Tate on bass. The overall music is more jazz-oriented than some of Carroll's recordings and her soft-spoken vocals are generally a delight; however, it is her swinging piano that consistently takes honors. A fine all-around set that serves as a good introduction to the music of Barbara Carroll.
Review by Scott Yanow