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. Earlier in the early '50s, Carroll recorded 10-inch albums for the Discovery, Livingston and Atlantic labels. All feature…
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