Liane Carroll: Up and Down – review

(Quietmoney) British singer/pianist Liane Carroll comes from the opposite end of the jazz-vocals galaxy to Gretchen Parlato. She's a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ballads. But this engagingly straight-jazzy session is the first to match her expressive skills with the resources that celebrity singers get – star guest soloists, strings and brass arrangements – and guidance from Grammy-nominated trumpeter/produce...

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