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Artist: Mary Lou Williams And Barbara Carroll Title: Ladies Of Jazz Label:   Atlantic Country: USA Catalogue: 1271 Date: Feb 1958 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Barbara Carroll	My Funny Valentine	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	Rate
A2	Barbara Carroll	Taking A Chance On Love	Vernon Duke, John Latouche, Ted Fetter	Rate
A3	Barbara Carroll	You Took Advantage Of Me	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	Rate
A4	Barbara Carroll	'Tis Autumn	Henry Nemo	Rate
A5	Barbara Carroll	The Lady's In Love With You	Frank Loesser, Burton Lane	Rate
A6	Barbara Carroll	Love Of My Life	Cole Porter	Rate
A7	Barbara Carroll	Autumn In New York	Vernon Duke	Rate
B1	Mary Lou Williams	You're The Cream In My Coffee	George "Buddy" DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson	Rate
B2	Mary Lou Williams	Surrey With The Fringe On Top	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein	Rate
B3	Mary Lou Williams	Pagliacci	Ruggero Leoncavallo	Rate
B4	Mary Lou Williams	Opus Z	Mary Lou Williams, Herb Nichols	Rate
B5	Mary Lou Williams	From This Moment On	Cole Porter	Rate
B6	Mary Lou Williams	In The Purple Grotto	Mary Lou Williams	Rate
B7	Mary Lou Williams	'S Wonderful	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	Rate

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Barbara Carroll was a jazz pianist and singer who began to play classical piano at a young age, but had later switched to jazz music. Though Ms. Carroll had attended the New England Conservatory of Music, she quit due to the fact that the schooling had conflicted her time for which she played in various bands. In 1948, one year after Ms. Carroll was branded “the first lady that ever played the bebop piano, her band trio had briefly worked with Benny Goodman. After two guitarists had stopped playing with Ms. Carroll’s trio, Ms. Carroll had decided to have a trio of which one played the bass, another the drums and another the piano.

Ms. Carroll’s trio of Joe Shulman (bassist) and Herb Wasserman (drummer), who had collaborated in the Broadway production of Me And Juliet, were the same trio that played the seven tunes of the a-side of this disc.

Mary Lou Williams, who performed the seven tunes of the b-side of this disc, was a jazz pianist who had written hundreds of musical compositions and had recorded massive amounts of tunes that were featured by means of more than one hundred discs that were in the format of discs of 33.33, 45 and 78 rpm.

In 1945, Ms. Williams had composed the Zodiac Suite in which each of the twelve sections corresponded to a sign of the Zodiac. She recorded this tune with Jack Parker and Al Lucas and had performed this tune at the New York City Hall. When Ms. Williams had decided to temporarily stop performing, she had converted to the Catholic faith and was baptized at Saint Ignatius Church.

Though this disc had poorly sold, Ms. Williams and Ms. Carroll will eternally be remembered for their unique style of playing jazz piano.

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