Jazz Articles about George Carroll

George Carroll & His Sarasota Sunsets Big Band: Life Is Better

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2001

As a follow–up to his well–received earlier album, Life Is Good, singer George Carroll has produced Life Is Better, using on most numbers his Sarasota Sunsets big band for support. Carroll has a likable voice, midway between tenor and baritone, but his intonation and pacing are sometimes less than precise, weaknesses that are most conspicuous on the ballads, and he is undermined by the recording itself whose excessive reverb makes him sound as though he were performing inside an empty ...