Faye Carol

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Review:

This is the 237th in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.

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A soulful vocalist who puts a lot of feeling into her singing, Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi and grew up in Pittsburg, California.

She sang in a church choir, took piano lessons, toured with the gospel group The Angelaires and, after high school, worked with such local blues artists as Eddie Foster, Johnny Heartsman, Johnny Talbot and Johnny Taylor & De Thangs.

She began singing jazz regularly in the 1980s without abandoning the blues, and has since worked with Charles Brown, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Bobby Hutcherson, Albert King, Pharoah Sanders, Marcus Shelby, and Steve Turre among others.

Faye Carol has appeared at many jazz and blues festivals (including Monterey) and has sometimes worked with her daughter pianist Kito Gamble.

On her LiveStream of May 15, 2020, Faye Carol (who is joined by pianist Joe Warner) puts on a spirited and high-powered show, whether singing vintage standards like “Anything Goes,” “If I Could Be With You” and “The Best Is Yet To Come” or more contemporary material.

-Scott Yanow