Barbara Carroll, a gifted jazz and pop pianist and singer who initially made a name for herself in New York in the late 1940s as a standout bop keyboardist 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 wound up as intermission keyboardists at clubs and…
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