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George Carroll

Performance: George Carroll's Big Band at Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on Sunday Nights

November 21, 2008

George Carroll's left hand says it all, moving in an 'S' motion up and down in front of his chest. The white-haired, bespectacled leader of the George W. Carroll Big Band stands between his 17-piece group and the crowd packed into Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on a recent Sunday night. The sound of saxophones, ...

Life Is Better

By George Carroll

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Released: 2001
Track listing: Sophisticated Lady; One for My Baby; Dreamsville; Willow Weep for Me; It Don

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 ...