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George Carroll & His Sarasota Sunsets Big Band: Life Is Better
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
read morePerformance: George Carroll's Big Band at Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on Sunday Nights
Source:
All About Jazz
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, trumpets and trombones easily slices through the air briefly before Carroll brings the microphone in his right hand to his lips and belts out ...
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