Carol Sloane

Carol Sloane (actually Carol Morvan , * 5. March 1937 in Providence , Rhode Iceland ) is an American jazz - singer .

Live and act

Carol Sloane began her career when she was fourteen when she performed with Ed Drew's band in her hometown. In 1958 she sang in Larry Elgar's orchestra, who advised her to change her name to "Sloane". In 1961 she jumped in for Annie Ross in the formation Lambert , Hendricks and Ross at their concerts in New York's Village Vanguard . In the same year she performed at the Newport Jazz Festival , which led to a recording contract with Columbia Records . The big record label, however, marketed her as a kind of second Barbra Streisand , which by no means wanted to fit her warm, calm jazz phrasing. A number of albums were made in the early 1960s and are now out of print.

By the 1980s, Carol Sloane had developed into a mature jazz singer; She recorded a number of albums for smaller record labels such as Contemporary Records , Concord or High Note and was popularized by jazz musicians such as u. a. Art Farmer , Rufus Reid , Kenny Barron , Phil Woods , Steve Turre and Frank Wess . In recent years she has performed mainly in Japan, where she has a steady fan base, as well as on the northeast coast of the United States and in New York .

Selection discography

• 1962: Out of the Blue (Columbia / Fresh Sound Records) with Barry Galbraith , Art Davis , George Duvivier , Clark Terry , Nick Travis , Bob Brookmeyer
• 1988: Love You Madly (Contemporary) with Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Kenny Barron, Kenny Buurell, Rufus Reid
• 1990: The Real Thing (Contemporary) with Phil Woods, Grady Tate
• 1991: Heart's Desire (Concord)
• 1993: Sweet and Slow (Concord)
• 1994: When I Look In Your Eyes (Concord)
• 1995: The Songs Carmen Sang (Concord) with Phil Woods
• 1996: The Songs Sinatra Sang (Concord) with Frank Wess
• 1997: The Songs Ella and Louis Sang (Concord) with Clark Terry
• 2001: I Never Went Away (High Note)
• 2010: We'll meet again (Arbors Record Inc.)

literature

• Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers. Black Dog & Leventhal, New York City 2005.
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld catalog jazz. 1988

Web links

• Works by and about Carol Sloane in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carol Sloane at Discogs (English)
• Carol Sloane website with discography