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Barbara Carroll
Sign in to saveJazz pianist, composer and vocalist. (1925–2017)
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- Works
- 12
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- Advice to Amabella
- Healing the Cancer Personality
- Gods, Goddesses, and Saints
- Free As a Bird Seriously?!
- Mystery of the Moaning Banshee
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Barbara Carroll (Barbara Carole Coppersmith, January 25, 1925 – February 11, 2017) was an American jazz pianist. Carroll was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She began her classical training in piano at age eight, but by high school decided to become a jazz pianist. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music for a year, but left it as it conflicted with working for bands. In 1947 Leonard Feather dubbed her "the first girl ever to play bebop piano. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barbara
- Family name
- Carroll
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Worcester
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Official website
- www.barbaracarrolljazz.com
- Image
- Clyde Lombardi, Barbara Carroll, Chuck Wayne. Downbeat, NYC, ca Sept 1947 Gottlieb.jpg
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- Barbara Carroll
- date of birth
- 1925-01-25
- date of death
- 2017-02-12
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- place of burial
- Ferncliff Cemetery
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