Carol Sloane was a brilliant, although underemployed, jazz singer who rose to relevance during 1961’s Music At Newport festival. While the era of jazz dominance is long gone, the director of a new documentary says, 'Carol really made it her mission that people would not forget that music.'
. Thanks to management connections, she also rubbed shoulders with the Beatles and Rolling Stones when they came to America. Those moments were fun but also bittersweet, as they marked the end of jazz’s commercial dominance. While Sloane would go on to make many celebrated appearances and recordings, there were also long stretches where gigs were infrequent. While living in North Carolina in the ‘70s, she took a day job as a legal secretary.
“She was there for so many major 20th-century moments,” says Lippert. “So it’s not just her story as an artist who is struggling, but also the way America changed. Even while we adopted rock as the modern American music, it all comes from jazz and blues, and Carol really made it her mission that people would not forget that music.”moved to Boston
in the mid-‘80s after a desperately needed gig at the Starlight Roof in Kenmore Square led to her marrying the venue’s booker, local promoter Buck Spurr. She would go on to be a beloved part of the live music scene as well as a local radio host andWhile in Boston, she mentored generations of singers,
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