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Videos: Diahann Carroll
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Diahann Carroll is best known as an African-American actress who appeared in movies in the 1950s and then on TV in the'60s and beyond—most notably on Julia and Dynasty. Julia aired on NBC from 1968 to 1971 and starred Carroll as a widowed nurse who worked in a white doctor's office (Lloyd Nolan). It was the first network TV show to feature an African-American woman in the lead role (Gail Fisher, Mannix's secretary, played a supporting role). But Carroll also ...
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Barbara Carroll (RCA Years)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In February, just after pianist Barbara Carroll's death, I posted a tribute in which I focused on the grace of her chord voicings and swing time in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1956, she was with RCA and recorded five superb albums. Prior to these dates in the '50s, Carroll recorded 10-inch albums for the Discovery, Livingston and Atlantic labels. All featured an artist with bass and drums who was determined to show off her energetic elegance and marvelous ...
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Barbara Carroll (1925-2017)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Barbara Carroll, a gifted jazz and pop pianist who made a name for herself in New York in the 1940s as a standout bop player with a proclivity for block chords and impeccable time, died on Feb. 12. She was 92. Carroll came up at a time when most skilled female jazz pianists could find steady work only as intermission keyboardists at hotel bars and lounges where managers sought to hold onto audiences. The list included Marian McPartland, Dardanelle, Marjorie ...
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Jovan Alexandre Launches Weekly NYC Jazz Residency At The Music Room At Carroll Place
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Sacks and Co.
SETS AT 10PM AND MIDNIGHT EVERY THURSDAY BEGINNING JANUARY 29 DEBUT ALBUM COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OUT FEBRUARY 24 “Jovan Alexandre is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the tenor saxophone— conceptually—in a long time. A gifted composer, his personal sound can seem variously molten and sharp-cornered within the same tune, sometimes almost within the same phrase. There’s an understated, almost implied, restlessness in his solos… He has that rare originality everyone strives for, and he definitely has ...
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Ernie Watts, Chuck Rainey, Liane Carroll, Impossible Gentlemen For Sligo Jazz Project 2015
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Sligo Jazz Project
Sligo Jazz Project is now taking bookings for its 10th Anniversary summer school and festival event, 21-26 July 2015. Its stellar 2015 15-tutor faculty, which includes Grammy winning US saxophone legend Ernie Watts, award winning UK vocalist Liane Carroll, Band-in-Residence The Impossible Gentlemen and recording legend Chuck Rainey (Steely Dan/ Aretha Franklin, etc.), will preside over an intense but inspiring week of workshops, masterclasses, concerts and jam sessions. All tutors will perform concerts at Sligo's unique jazz festival. The faculty ...
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Acid Mambo: Chris Washburne & Syotos at Winter Jazzfest (Carroll Place) on January 10 -
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Chris Washburne & SYOTOS will present a sneak preview of their forthcoming release at this year's Winter JazzFest in New York City. It's what they call “Acid Mambo!" Think Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Neil Young and Lou Reed meet Tito Puente! Afro Latin jazz on a psychedelic trip! “SYOTOS plays with fire and erudition!" —New York Times JANUARY 10, 2015 Carroll Place 157 Bleecker Street New York, NY Saturday, January 10, 2015 ...
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Made In The UK Jazz Concerts Open With Get The Blessing In Rochester And Liane Carroll In Ottawa
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Jazz Services UK
2012 is the 5th year of the British jazz concert series, Made in the UK, which has brought more than 30 UK jazz groups to Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival since 2008. This year will see many of the groups performing in Canada for the first time starting tonight with the award winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll's appearance at Ottawa Jazz Festival. This evening will also see the first of nine nights of Made in the UK concerts in the Christ ...
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Southport Melodic Jazz Presents The Leon Greening Quintet and The Liane Carroll Trio The Royal Clifton Hotel on May 13th
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Su Williams
Expectations across England's North West are rising as this year’s Southport Jazz Festival launch approaches and Southport Melodic Jazz are once again putting on two concerts at their usual venue, The Royal Clifton Hotel, on Sunday 13th May. At 2pm, hard swinging pianist Leon Greening will be playing music from his debut CD Cookin' in Brooklyn along with a sizzling line up of Alex Garnett on sax, Martin Shaw on trumpet, Michael Janisch on double bass and Steve Brown on ...
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Jeanne Carroll, "First Lady of Chicago Blues" Passed Away in Brussels
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Ron Templin
By Ron Templin Jazz singer Jeanne Carroll suffered a massive heart attack on Sunday, Austus 7, 2011, while she was performing on stage with her daughter Karen Carroll at the 11th Annual Blues Oan Daa Stoazze in Hamme, Belgium. At approx. 9,30 pm GMT+1, while into the fourth song “All Of Me," Jeanne collapsed. Fortunately, the members of the blues society, that hosted the festival were policemen and firemen and within seven seconds emergency personal began resuscitation. During the next ...
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Early Release of Karen Carroll's Blues Mix at Amazon.com
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Ron Templin
Karen Carroll was surprised this week when she found her new CD had been released early. This production was scheduled to go at the end of August but when shopping for some new music she ran across her own new mp3 download. This is most exciting with the wonderful attention she has gotten from All About Jazz. Karen was thrilled first at the response to the the preview of her single “Do You Ever Think About Me," then second being ...
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Good Evening Mr. Brown
From: Anthem for the EldersBy Carroll "CV" Dashiell III
