Barbara Carroll On Piano Jazz
Barbara Carroll On Piano Jazz
![Barbara Carroll performing at the New York Sheraton Hotel & Tower in June 2016 in New York City.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/07/03/gettyimages-541897372_wide-b12fe56d889f39397b885a762de2d146a5824267.jpg?s=1100&c=50&f=jpeg)
Pianist and vocalist Barbara Carroll (1925 – 2017) was described as a joyous and swinging jazz stylist. A dear friend of McPartland's, Carroll had a monumental career. When she was a guest on the program in 1979, she had just started her engagement at Bemelmans Bar in Manhattan, where she would go on to perform for a remarkable 25 years. In this episode from the first season of Piano Jazz, she plays an original, "Barbara's Carol," and duets with McPartland on a timely rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely."
Originally broadcast Spring 1979.
SET LIST:
"Barbara's Carol" (Carroll)
"Dancing on the Ceiling" (Hart, Rodgers)
"Isn't She Lovely" (Wonder)
"In Some Other World" (Carroll)
"Just the Way You Are" (Carroll, Revel)
"Laura" (Raskin)
"Blues Blues" (Carroll)
"Satin Doll/How High the Moon" (Ellington, Mercer)