Barbara Carroll Trio I Wished on the Moon 180g 2LP

"Among female piano players, [Barbara] Carroll was known as the first to venture into the progressive bebop style that was especially associated with Bud Powell... Carroll did not ignore the pop styles of subsequent decades, yet always managed to keep a strong jazz flavor present in whatever material she performed. If swing was a bay leaf, it would be said that Carroll had a large bush growing right outside her kitchen window. She recorded for many of the best labels in the genre including Verve and Atlantic and continued to be in demand at clubs and cabarets into her nineties, playing a regular gig at Manhattan's Birdland venue until December 2016." — Eugene Chadbourne, AllMusic

"Ms. Carroll plays with an impeccable technique in which harmonies burst into flower. In recent decades she has embraced singing in a parlando style that is witty, literate, discreetly sexy and at times heartbreakingly honest." — Stephen Holder, The New York Times