Up And Down is beautiful. The song choices and arrangements are inspired, and the musicians are uniformly superb. Carroll is a singer of superb style, capable of projecting every nuance and subtlety of a lyric. What more is there to say? This is one of the finest vocal jazz albums to appear for many a moon. Allaboutjazz.comShe's a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ballads. But this engagingly straight-jazzy session is the first to match her expressive skills with the resources that celebrity singers get – star guest soloists, strings and brass arrangements – and guidance from Grammy-nominated trumpeter/producer James McMillan. The Guardian
Parliamentary Jazz Awards Album of the Year Shortlisted
Quiet Money Recordings
