There is more than one artist with the name Barbara Carroll. Barbara Carroll (born January 25, 1925 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a jazz pianist, composer and vocalist. She began her classical training in piano at age eight, but by high school had 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. ...show more

There is more than one artist with the name Barbara Carroll. Barbara Carroll (born January 25, 1925 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a jazz pianist, composer and vocalist. She began her classical training in piano at age eight, but by high school had 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." In the following year her trio, which had Chuck Wayne on guitar and Clyde Lombardi on bass, worked briefly with Benny Goodman. Later Charlie Byrd replaced Wayne with Joe Shulman replacing Lombardi.[citation needed] After Byrd left she decided to have it be a drums, bass, and piano trio. In the 1950s she did noteworthy solo work as well as work with her trio. She also began to cross-over doing a jazz-waltz and her trio worked on Me and Juliet by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

That stated the end of the decade saw her career ebb. This occurred because of changing musical tastes and personal concerns. In September 1954 Barbara married Joe Shulman, a member of the trio. The marriage lasted less than three years as he died of a heart-attack in 1957 at 33. ...show less