Carol Sloane's headshot from the 1960s. (Courtesy Courtesy "Sloane: A Jazz Singer") The Friday afternoon audience was paltry at Music At Newport, the 1961 replacement for the Newport Jazz Festival.

The documentary “Sloane: A Jazz Singer” opens with Carol Sloane, breathing heavily and wearing big-lensed sunglasses and a light blue baseball cap that reads “goingbarefoot.inc,” walking slowly into ...

This broadcast includes new releases from The Empress (Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo, Chelsea Baratz), 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's ...

All Rhode Islanders should note the recent passing of jazz great and Smithfield’s own Carol Sloane. She was considered a “pure” jazz voice with an amazing pitch. Her creativity with a song became her ...

With Mike Renzi, piano; Scott Hamilton, tenor saxophone; Jay Leonhart, bass. The jazz singer Carol Sloane is leaving the door a little open. True confession: When she played Birdland in September 2019 ...

A few years ago I was at a now-famous birthday party for the celebrity attorney Mark D. Sendroff, a party during which a stunning two hours of entertainment took place, featuring performers like ...

Beloved jazz singer Carol Sloane died January 23 at a senior care center in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She was 85. The cause was complications from a stroke two years ago, said her stepdaughter, Sandra ...

Carol Sloane was only 14 and growing up outside of Providence when she began her professional singing career by accompanying an area dance band. She pocketed $11 a week for those early gigs. “I was ...

Later today, the Cannes Film Festival will reverberate with the sound of one of America’s great jazz singers. An exclusive screening of Sloane: A Jazz Singer will take place this afternoon at the ...

Sloane has almost always gotten the big things right. Listen to any of her records and you will hear a singer with excellent intonation, superb time and a genuine feel for the meaning of a lyric. In ...

Tom Shaker lives in Woonsocket and is an author, filmmaker and the host of “The Soul Serenade” on WICN, 90.5FM. All Rhode Islanders should note the recent passing of jazz great and Smithfield’s own ...

An exclusive screening of Sloane: A Jazz Singer will take place this afternoon at the Riviera 1, the primary screening venue of the Marché du Film. The documentary directed by Michael Lippert explores ...