Bill Kirchner: For All We Know

Carol Fredette was a lovely and much-admired singer who see-sawed between supper club and jazz. When she sang jazz, her voice grew hushed, as if telling you a secret. It also could become husky and rich, as on songs like This Is Always and Long Ago and Far Away. Born in 1940, she started singing right after college in the late 1950s with the touring big…