Biography

Liane Carroll double BBC Jazz Award Winner

“Swinging like hell one minute, brutally expressive and heart breakingly tender

the next…….. utterly brilliant”  Time Out

Having been something of a stalwart of the British jazz scene for many years, Liane has in the last few years gone on to enjoy huge critical acclaim and is now considered by many to be one of the top jazz vocalists not just in the UK, but worldwide.

She is available with her excellent Trio consisting of Liane Carroll (Vocals/Piano), Roger Carey (Electric Bass) and Mark Fletcher (Drums) or alternatively is also available solo.

2003 saw the launch of her first solo album, ‘Billy No Mates,’ a haunting and intimate collection of standards and originals, for the Independent label, Splash Point Records. The album was her biggest selling to date and, as well as being critically acclaimed, went on to win her two BBC Jazz Awards in 2005. She is the only musician ever to have picked up two of these awards in the same year

In 2005, she released ‘Standard Issue,’ with Splash Point, this time at Abbey Road studios, famous for its luscious piano sound. The album featured her trio, as well as special guests; Ian Shaw, a long-time friend and collaborator, and Bobby Wellins, perhaps our most beloved tenor saxophonist. It would also prove a hit with the critics and in 2006, enabled her to pick up the Marston Pedigree Jazz Award. She would later become the subject of an hour long television programme for the BBC, which featured a performance by Liane and her trio at the Brecon Jazz Festival.

In 2007, she continued a busy touring schedule with her trio as well as performing solo at the piano at many of the UK's more intimate settings. In May she picked up the award for 'Best female jazz vocalist' at the first ever Ronnie Scotts Jazz Awards, and in June her trio make a head-line appearance at Glastonbury Festival, which went out live to over 300,000 listeners on BBC Radio 3.

In February 2008, Liane released her first DVD 'Liane Carroll Trio LIVE,' which featured a performance from the Brecon Jazz Festival originally broadcast as a documentary on BBC4. Liane went on to pick up the 2008 Parliamentary Jazz Award for 'Musician Of The Year.' Later that year Liane formed an exciting new collaboration with the acclaimed Scottish jazz pianist Brian Kellock, and in November the pair toured throughout Scotland, at which The Herald declared, "This may well be British jazz's greatest double act." During the tour Liane and Brian recorded a live album at the Blue Lamp in Aberdeen. "Live At The Lampie" (Splash Point Records) was released on May 11th 2009 and launched at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho to rave reviews.

Later that year, Liane and her trio went Stateside for the first time and performed to rapturous audiences at Dizzy's Jazz Club at the Lincoln Center, and the Rochester Jazz Festival, before jetting off again to Ireland for a mini-tour of four venues in Belfast. Liane and the trio continue a busy touring schedule through 2011 and will be releasing a new album in the third quarter of 2011.