Liane Carroll

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Liane Carroll

| image = Liane Carroll.jpg

| caption = Carroll at Union Chapel, Islington, London, November 2007

| image_size =

| background = solo_singer

| birth_name =

| birth_place = London, England

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|02|09|df=y}}

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Musician, singer

| instruments = {{flatlist|

Vocals
piano
keyboards

}}

| years_active = 1980–present

| label = Quietmoney, Proper, Splash Point, Hospital, Wah Wah 45s

| associated_acts = London Elektricity, Part-Time Heroes

| website = {{URL|https://lianecarroll.co.uk/music.html}}

}}

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Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964) is an English vocalist, pianist and keyboardist.{{cite news | url=http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-blogs/sos/all-that-jazz | title=All that jazz... | work=Hastings Online Times | author=Sean O'Shea | date=29 March 2013 | accessdate=16 April 2013 }}

Early life

Carroll's parents were semi-professional singers who met and sang at the Country Club in Eastbourne.{{cite news | url=http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/liane-carroll-s-solo-show-will-be-an-emotional-journey-1-3808519 | title=Liane Carroll's solo show will be an emotional journey | work=Scotland on Sunday | date=21 June 2015 | accessdate=9 September 2015}} She grew up in a musical household{{cite news | url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure/art/10399314.The_worst_kept_secret_in_jazz__Liane_Carroll/?ref=rss | title=The worst kept secret in jazz: Liane Carroll | work=Lancashire Telegraph | date=3 May 2013 | accessdate=14 May 2014}}In a short film by Sarah Linklater about Liane Carroll and her weekly performances at Porters, a small pub in Hastings, Carroll said that her parents were both singers and her grandmother had played the piano. {{cite web|url= http://vimeo.com/22957547|title= Liane Carroll (video)| author= Sarah Linklater for Hidden Gems |via= Vimeo|date= May 2011 |accessdate=12 June 2011}} in Hastings{{cite book|author= Marcus Weeks|title=Sussex Music|publisher=Snake River Press|location= Alfriston|year= 2008|isbn= 978-1-906022-10-5}} and in south London.{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/liane-carroll-mn0001497895/biography | title=Liane Carroll: Artist Biography | website=AllMusic | accessdate=7 September 2014}} She started learning the piano at the age of three, began composing at the age of eight, and has been a professional singer, pianist and composer since she was 15.{{cite web|url= http://vimeo.com/22957547|title= Liane Carroll (video)|author=Sarah Linklater for Hidden Gems |via= Vimeo|date= May 2011 |accessdate=12 June 2011}}{{cite web | url=https://www.whirlwindrecordings.com/liane-carroll/| title=Profile: Liane Carroll | publisher=Whirlwind Recordings | access-date=20 January 2024}}

Career

In 1998 Carroll joined Trevor Watts' Moiré Music band and toured overseas with them. She became a respected session musician and also worked in bands under Dave Holdsworth, Gerry Rafferty, Jerry Donohue and Long John Baldry.

Carroll formed her own trio and recorded for Jazz Art, Bridge, and Ronnie Scott's Jazz House.

From 1996 to 2002, Carroll worked with singer-songwriter-guitarist Peter Kirtley, with whom she composed many songs. They appeared together on a charity single for Brazilian street children, on which Carroll's backing singer was Paul McCartney.{{cite press release | url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.beatles/oFGmCWqy3hE | title=Paul McCartney backs charity CD for Brazilian street children | publisher=Jubilee Campaign | author= Rachel Bader|date=1 March 1999 | accessdate=10 December 2018}}

From 1996 onwards Carroll started working with Hospital Records. In 2003 she toured internationally with a band formed by Hospital Records' owner Tony Colman, playing at the Brazilian Electro Dance Music Festival in Brasília. In the early 2000s she began recording for the Splash Point label, releasing a series of recordings that embraced jazz, R&B and the singer-songwriter tradition. From 2005 onwards, she decided to focus on her jazz work.

Carroll has worked with many artists ranging from Paul McCartneyTogether with Paul McCartney, she performed with the Peter Kirtley Band on the 1998 charity CD single "Little Children". and Gerry RaffertyShe performed with Gerry Rafferty on his 1992 album, On a Wing and a Prayer. {{cite web|url=https://www.themusic-world.com/artist/gerry_rafferty/album/on_a_wing_and_a_prayer |title= Gerry Rafferty album: On a Wing and a Prayer, 1992|publisher= Music World |access-date=20 January 2024}} to Ladysmith Black Mambazo. She has also performed as lead vocalist and Wurlitzer keyboardist for the drum and bass band London Elektricity. She is a regular performer at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and the 606 Club in London, and has made several albums. In addition to performing, Carroll also teaches at jazz summer schools in the UK and Europe, and conducts workshops.

Broadcasting

In 2013 Carroll was a guest on Alex Horne's BBC Radio 4 comedy show Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rl1y3 | title=Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section, Series 2 Episode 6 of 6 | date=3 January 2024 | publisher=BBC Radio 4 | access-date=11 March 2025}}{{cite web | url=http://www.comedychords.com/news/alex-horne-liane-carroll/ | title=Alex Horne, Liane Carroll and the Ping Pong Ball | publisher=Comedy Chords | work=News | date=25 March 2013 | accessdate=2 May 2015 | author=Howard Gorman}}

Awards and recognition

In 2005 Carroll won two awards in the BBC Jazz Awards: Best Vocalist and Best of Jazz.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_27_mon_02.shtml|title=Success at the BBC Jazz Awards 2005|work= Woman's Hour|publisher= BBC|date= 4 July 2005|access-date= 20 January 2024}}{{cite web|url=http://luxuryexperience.com/music_scene/interviews/liane_carroll_interview.html|title=Liane Carroll Interview|author= Debra C Argen|publisher= Luxury Experience, Greenwich, Connecticut (USA)|date=March 2006|accessdate=16 June 2020}} In 2006 she won the Marston Pedigree Jazz Award for best vocalist. On 13 May 2008, Andy Burnham MP, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, presented her with the 2008 award for Jazz Musician of the Year in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards.{{cite web | url=http://www.jazzfmawards.com/news/meet-the-nominees-liane-carroll-uk-vocalist-of-the-year/ | title=The Jazz FM Awards 2013: Meet the Nominees: Liane Carroll – UK Vocalist of the Year | publisher=Jazz FM | work=Jazz FM Awards | date=14 December 2012 | accessdate=15 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/forumappjag.html|title= All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG)|publisher= Sandy Brown Jazz|accessdate= 13 February 2018}} Her album Up and Down won in the Jazz Album of the Year category at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards in May 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/component/content/article/69-daily-breaking-news/2012/12371-jazz-breaking-news-liane-carroll-jamie-cullum-and-jon-newey-among-the-winners-at-the-parliamentary-jazz-awards-|title= Jazz breaking news: Liane Carroll, Jamie Cullum and Jon Newey among the winners at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards|author=Stephen Graham|publisher= Jazzwise |date= 17 May 2012|accessdate= 13 February 2018}} In 2016 she won a Gold award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).{{cite news | url=http://www.musicweek.com/talent/read/basca-gold-badge-award-winners-revealed/066139 | title=BASCA Gold Badge Award winners revealed | work=Music Week | date=4 October 2016 | accessdate=8 October 2016 | author=Daniel Gumble | location=London}}

Jazz critic Dave Gelly of The Observer described Carroll as "one of the most stylistically flexible pianists around, with a marvellous, slightly husky singing voice".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/09/jazz.shopping |title=Liane Carroll, Standard Issue|author= Dave Gelly and Carol McDaid|newspaper=The Observer |date= 9 October 2005|accessdate= 2 November 2015}} According to John Fordham of The Guardian, she is "a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ballads".{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/23/liane-carroll-cd-review | title=Liane Carroll: Up and Down – review | work=The Guardian | date=23 June 2011 | accessdate=12 August 2013 | author=John Fordham}} Peter Quinn of Jazzwise said, "Liane Carroll has that rare ability to meld effortless, often transcendent vocal and piano technique, with heart stopping emotion and soul bearing power."{{cite news | url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/features/jazzwise-magazine-features/13811-liane-carroll-sea-of-joy | title=Liane Carroll – Sea of Joy | work=Jazzwise | date=September 2015 | accessdate=2 November 2015 | author=Peter Quinn}} Nick Hasted of The Independent said she is "still frustratingly little-known" but "one of Britain's most emotionally visceral and accomplished singers".{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/liane-carroll-jazz-review-pure-yet-raw-9030310.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/liane-carroll-jazz-review-pure-yet-raw-9030310.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Liane Carroll, jazz review: 'Pure yet raw' | work=The Independent | date=30 December 2013 | accessdate=4 January 2014 | author=Nick Hasted}}

Carroll's five albums since 2009 have each received four-starred reviews in The Guardian or The Observer.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Personal life

Carroll lives in Hastings{{cite news |url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/features/jazzwise-magazine-features/11889-liane-carroll-on-the-upside|title= Liane Carroll – On the Upside |author=Peter Quinn |work= Jazzwise |date=27 May 2011|accessdate=28 May 2016}} with her husband Roger Carey, bassist in the Liane Carroll Trio; they married in 1990. She has a daughter, Abby.{{Cite web |date=August 2017 |title=Liane Carroll: Romance and Redemption |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/other/article/liane-carroll-romance-and-redemption |access-date=13 March 2021 |author=Peter Quinn |work= Jazzwise}}

Discography

=Dave Holdsworth-Liane Carroll Quartet=

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Album ! Record label ! Release date ! Notes
Ten Day Simon \|Cadillac \|8 May 1990 \|With Dave Holdsworth on trumpet, this album features original compositions and jazz standards

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Album

! Record label

! Release date

! Notes

Ten Day Simon

|Cadillac

|8 May 1990

|With Dave Holdsworth on trumpet, this album features original compositions and jazz standards

=Liane Carroll=

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Album ! Record label ! Release date ! Notes
That's Life (Liane Carroll and Roger Carey) \|Jazz Art \|1991 \|
Clearly \|Bridge \|1 October 1995 \|Features Dave Mattacks (drums) and Roger Carey (bass), with a guest appearance by trumpeter Dick Pearce
Dolly Bird \|Ronnie Scott's Jazz House \|18 August 1997 \|Recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Features Peter Kirtley (guitar, vocals), Steve Lamb (bass guitar) and Greg Leppard (drums)
Son of Dolly Bird \|Ronnie Scott's Jazz House \|28 January 2002 \|Recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in January 2001. Features Steve Lamb (bass guitar), Greg Leppard (drums) and special guest Julian Siegel (tenor saxophone)
Billy No Mates \|Splash Point \|CD (SPR001CD) on 14 September 2003{{cite press release\|url= http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/SPRPressRelease030909.html\|title= Splash Point Records releases Liane Carroll's fabulous solo album, "Billy No Mates"\|publisher= Splash Point Records\|date= 9 September 2003\|accessdate= 17 July 2011\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120323034745/http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/SPRPressRelease030909.html\|archive-date= 23 March 2012\|url-status= dead}} \|Carroll's first solo album. Includes four original songs by Carroll: "Three Sheets to the Wind", "Fly Little Bird", "Dublin Morning" and "Billy No Mates"
Standard Issue \|Splash Point \|CD (SPR003CD) on 3 October 2005{{cite press release \| url=http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/pr060905.html \| title=Splash Point Records launches Standard Issue, the astounding new album by BBC Jazz Awards 2005 double-winner Liane Carroll \| publisher=Splash Point Records \| date=6 September 2005 \| accessdate=26 September 2014}} \|Recorded live on 5 June 2005 at Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios. Features the Liane Carroll Trio (Roger Carey on bass guitar and Greg Leppard on drums) and guests Ian Shaw (vocals), John Parricelli (guitar) and Bobby Wellins (tenor saxophone)Reviewing Standard Issue for Jazzwise magazine, Peter Quinn said: "her arrangement of Janis Ian's 'At Seventeen' is close to musical perfection." {{cite news \|url= http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/jazzwise05.html \|title= Liane Carroll: Standard Issue\|author=Peter Quinn \|work= Jazzwise\| accessdate= 21 May 2012}}
Slow Down \|Splash Point \|CD (SPR004CD) on 24 September 2007{{cite web \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r43n//\|title= Liane Carroll Slow Down Review \|publisher= BBC \|access-date=20 January 2024}}	Solo album; Ian Shaw guests on one trackAs well as jazz standards, and numbers by singer-songwriters including Laura Nyro, Donovan and Tom Waits, Slow Down includes an original song, "You Can't Slow My Heart Down", co-written by Liane Carroll with Peter Kirtley. Reviewing Slow Down for BBC Music, Kathryn Shackleton said: "On Slow Down Liane sings her way through the whole spectrum from jazz diva to fragile victim. Van Heusen and Cahn's 'All The Way' and Duke Ellington's 'In My Solitude' are remade as torch songs, with vulnerability oozing out of every verse, while 'Lazy Afternoon' perfectly captures her molasses low tones and silken high ones – her sparse electric piano accompaniment creating a brooding, hypnotic tension." {{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r43n\|title=It doesn't just tug at your heart strings, it rips them out...\|author=Kathryn Shackleton \|publisher= BBC Music\|date= 4 January 2008\|accessdate= 13 June 2011}}
Liane Live DVD \|Splash Point \|DVD (SPR007DVD) on 4 February 2008{{cite web \|url=http://www.propermusic.com/product-details/Liane-Carroll-Liane-Carroll-Trio-Live-DVD-21709 \|title= Liane Carroll – Liane Carroll Trio Live (DVD)\|publisher= ProperMusic.com \|accessdate=2 November 2015}} \|Featuring concert by the Liane Carroll Trio (Roger Carey on bass and Mark Fletcher on drums) at the Brecon Jazz Festival 2006; Ian Shaw guests on one trackFilmed by the BBC, the DVD is introduced by Julian Joseph.
One Good Reason \|Qnote, distributed by Universal Music \|CD (QNT 10110) on 21 July 2008{{cite web \| url=http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2008/06/1901.html \| title=The Passion release debut album after ten years \| work=Jazz News \| date=June 2008 \| accessdate=20 June 2014}} \|Recorded in 2002, as part of "The Passion"{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010xwgj\|title= Jazz Line-Up: The Passion \|publisher= BBC Radio 3\|date= 8 May 2011 \|accessdate = 28 July 2018}} with Jacqui Dankworth and Sara ColmanReviewing One Good Reason for All About Jazz, Dave Major said that "at no time does one voice truly overpower the trio. Even in dense, concerted passages, you can appreciate each subtle nuance, change in vibrato or balance". {{cite web \|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/one-good-reason-the-passion-qnote-records-review-by-dave-major\|title=CD/LP/Track Review: The Passion: One Good Reason (2008)\|author=Dave Major \|website=All About Jazz \|date= 26 September 2008\|access-date= 11 March 2025}}
Break Even (with John Etheridge) \| Dekkor \| CD (RCD 027) on 24 November 2008{{cite web \|url=https://www.propermusic.com/drcd027-break-even.html1\|title= Break Even\|publisher= ProperMusic.com \|accessdate=1 March 2021}} \|With Hammond organist Pete Whittaker and drummer Mark FletcherGuardian reviewer John Fordham said of Break Even, "Carroll's confidence in the expressiveness of the smallest utterance gives her an irresistible eloquence, as strong at low volumes as it is at full throttle". {{cite news\|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/feb/13/jazz\|title=John Etheridge/Liane Carroll: Break Even\|author= John Fordham\|work= The Guardian\|date=13 February 2009\| accessdate=14 June 2011}}
Best Standard Issue \| SSG Entertainment \| CD (DC 9648) on 23 December 2008{{cite web \| url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7813811 \| title=Liane Carroll – Best Standard Issue CD \| publisher=CD Universe \| accessdate=7 September 2014}} \| This album was released in Germany. It has 17 tracks: duration 74 mins{{cite web \| url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/best-standard-issue-mw0001266424 \| title=Liane Carroll: Best Standard Issue \| website=AllMusic \| access-date=20 January 2024}}
Live at the Lampie (with Brian Kellock) \|Splash Point \|CD (SPR009CD) on 11 May 2009{{cite web\|url=https://www.propermusic.com/spr009cd-live-at-the-lampie.html\|title=Live at the Lampie\|publisher= ProperMusic.com \|accessdate=16 June 2020}} \|Recorded live at The Blue Lamp pub in AberdeenGuardian reviewer John Fordham said of Live at the Lampie, "Since Liane Carroll can loose off a jazz-singing broadside that might touch on Betty Carter and Bobby McFerrin (with soul-vocal asides including everyone from Aretha to Stevie Wonder), and Scottish piano virtuoso Kellock has a comparable range from Fats Waller to free-improv, the potential for repetition in this duo is low. Released from her singer/pianist responsibilities, Carroll has rarely sounded more spontaneous and relaxed." {{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/liane-carroll-brian-kellock-review\|title=Liane Carroll/Brian Kellock: Live at the Lampie\|author= John Fordham\|work= The Guardian\|date=14 August 2011\|accessdate=13 June 2011}}
Up and Down \|Quietmoney, distributed by Proper Records \|CD (QMR0001CD) on 27 June 2011 \|Recorded in London, Hastings, Brighton, Prague and Memphis, Tennessee, it features Kenny Wheeler, Kirk Whalum, Julian Siegel and James McMillan as guest soloists.{{cite news\|url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/68-2011/11847-jazz-breaking-news-liane-carroll-returns-with-new-album\|title=Jazz breaking news: Liane Carroll Returns With New Album \|author= Stephen Graham\|work= Jazzwise\|date=8 April 2011\|accessdate=16 June 2011}}{{cite news\|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/03/liane-carroll-up-down-review\|title=Liane Carroll: Up and Down – review \|author= Dave Gelly \|work= The Observer\|date=3 July 2011\|accessdate= 6 July 2011}}Guardian reviewer John Fordham said of Up and Down, "Singer/pianist Carroll is a world-class act, but this is the first recording to capture the full range of her expressiveness. Up and Down embraces intimate voice/piano performances, orchestra-backed extravaganzas and jazz jams with soloists of the pedigree of Kenny Wheeler and Julian Siegel." {{cite news\| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/19/film-and-music-playlist\| title=F&M Playlist\|author= John Fordham\|work= The Guardian\|date=19 May 2011\|accessdate=12 June 2011\|display-authors=etal}}
Ballads{{cite news \| url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/liane-carroll-ballads-n6ztmhmvh52 \| title=Liane Carroll: Ballads \| work=The Times \| date=13 April 2013 \| access-date=11 March 2025 \| author=John Bungey \| location=London}} \| Quietmoney, distributed by Proper Records \|CD (QMR0002CD) on 15 April 2013 \|Recorded in Hastings,{{cite news \| url=https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/lifestyle/jazz-legend-liane-set-launch-new-album-2349426 \| title=Jazz legend Liane set to launch new album \| work=Hastings & St. Leonards Observer \| date=15 March 2013 \| accessdate=13 March 2021}} it features Mark Edwards (piano), Gwilym Simcock (piano), Julian Siegel (bass clarinet) and Kirk Whalum (tenor saxophone) with orchestration and big band arrangements by Chris Walden and includes Sophie Bancroft's song "Calgary Bay", performed with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.{{cite web \| url=http://www.sophiebancroft.co.uk/ \| title=Sophie Bancroft \| publisher= Sophie Bancroft \| accessdate=16 April 2013}}
Seaside \|Linn \|CD (AKD 533) on 18 September 2015{{Cite web \|date=18 September 2015 \|title=Seasise \|url=https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/seaside \|access-date=11 March 2025 \|website=OutHere Music}} \| Recorded in Hastings, this studio album received four-starred reviews in The Guardian, The Observer and Mojo magazine.{{cite news \| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/20/liane-carroll-seaside-review-candour-and-artistry \| title=Liane Carroll: Seaside review – candour and artistry combined \| work=The Observer \| date=20 September 2015 \| access-date=20 September 2015 \| author=Dave Gelly}}{{cite news \| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/01/liane-carroll-seaside-review \| title=Liane Carroll: Seaside review – in her element in this seaside set \| work=The Guardian \| date=1 October 2015 \| access-date=10 October 2015 \| author=John Fordham}}{{cite web \| url=http://www.linnrecords.com/review-533-mojo.aspx \| title=Liane Carroll – Seaside – Mojo \| publisher=Linn Records \| date=1 October 2015 \| accessdate=10 October 2015 \| author=Fred Dellar}} The title track was written by Joe Stilgoe
The Right to Love \|Quietmoney, distributed by Proper Records \| CD (QMR0004) in July 2017 \|Produced by James McMillan, this album received four-starred reviews in The Guardian,{{Cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/10/liane-carroll-the-right-to-love-review-elegant-vocalist-finds-new-truths \|title=Liane Carroll: The Right to Love review – elegant vocalist finds new truths \|last=John Lewis \|date=10 August 2017 \|work=The Guardian \|access-date=12 August 2017}} The Observer{{Cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/23/liane-carroll-right-to-love-review-jazz?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other \|title=Liane Carroll: The Right to Love review – emotional depth, superb arrangements \|last=Dave Gelly \|date=23 July 2017 \|work=The Observer \|access-date=25 July 2017}} and the London Evening Standard.{{Cite news \|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/music/liane-carroll-the-right-to-love-review-an-expressive-voice-a3599006.html \|title=Liane Carroll, The Right to Love review: An expressive voice \|author=Jane Cornwell \|date=28 July 2017 \|work=Evening Standard \|access-date=31 July 2017}}

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Album

! Record label

! Release date

! Notes

That's Life (Liane Carroll and Roger Carey)

|Jazz Art

|1991

Clearly

|Bridge

|1 October 1995

|Features Dave Mattacks (drums) and Roger Carey (bass), with a guest appearance by trumpeter Dick Pearce

Dolly Bird

|Ronnie Scott's Jazz House

|18 August 1997

|Recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Features Peter Kirtley (guitar, vocals), Steve Lamb (bass guitar) and Greg Leppard (drums)

Son of Dolly Bird

|Ronnie Scott's Jazz House

|28 January 2002

|Recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in January 2001. Features Steve Lamb (bass guitar), Greg Leppard (drums) and special guest Julian Siegel (tenor saxophone)

Billy No Mates

|Splash Point

|CD (SPR001CD) on 14 September 2003{{cite press release|url= http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/SPRPressRelease030909.html|title= Splash Point Records releases Liane Carroll's fabulous solo album, "Billy No Mates"|publisher= Splash Point Records|date= 9 September 2003|accessdate= 17 July 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120323034745/http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/SPRPressRelease030909.html|archive-date= 23 March 2012|url-status= dead}}

|Carroll's first solo album. Includes four original songs by Carroll: "Three Sheets to the Wind", "Fly Little Bird", "Dublin Morning" and "Billy No Mates"

Standard Issue

|Splash Point

|CD (SPR003CD) on 3 October 2005{{cite press release | url=http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/pr060905.html | title=Splash Point Records launches Standard Issue, the astounding new album by BBC Jazz Awards 2005 double-winner Liane Carroll | publisher=Splash Point Records | date=6 September 2005 | accessdate=26 September 2014}}

|Recorded live on 5 June 2005 at Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios. Features the Liane Carroll Trio (Roger Carey on bass guitar and Greg Leppard on drums) and guests Ian Shaw (vocals), John Parricelli (guitar) and Bobby Wellins (tenor saxophone)Reviewing Standard Issue for Jazzwise magazine, Peter Quinn said: "her arrangement of Janis Ian's 'At Seventeen' is close to musical perfection." {{cite news |url= http://www.splashpointmusic.com/press_pages/jazzwise05.html |title= Liane Carroll: Standard Issue|author=Peter Quinn |work= Jazzwise| accessdate= 21 May 2012}}

Slow Down

|Splash Point

|CD (SPR004CD) on 24 September 2007{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r43n//|title= Liane Carroll Slow Down Review |publisher= BBC |access-date=20 January 2024}}

Solo album; Ian Shaw guests on one trackAs well as jazz standards, and numbers by singer-songwriters including Laura Nyro, Donovan and Tom Waits, Slow Down includes an original song, "You Can't Slow My Heart Down", co-written by Liane Carroll with Peter Kirtley. Reviewing Slow Down for BBC Music, Kathryn Shackleton said: "On Slow Down Liane sings her way through the whole spectrum from jazz diva to fragile victim. Van Heusen and Cahn's 'All The Way' and Duke Ellington's 'In My Solitude' are remade as torch songs, with vulnerability oozing out of every verse, while 'Lazy Afternoon' perfectly captures her molasses low tones and silken high ones – her sparse electric piano accompaniment creating a brooding, hypnotic tension." {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r43n|title=It doesn't just tug at your heart strings, it rips them out...|author=Kathryn Shackleton |publisher= BBC Music|date= 4 January 2008|accessdate= 13 June 2011}}

Liane Live DVD

|Splash Point

|DVD (SPR007DVD) on 4 February 2008{{cite web |url=http://www.propermusic.com/product-details/Liane-Carroll-Liane-Carroll-Trio-Live-DVD-21709 |title= Liane Carroll – Liane Carroll Trio Live (DVD)|publisher= ProperMusic.com |accessdate=2 November 2015}}

|Featuring concert by the Liane Carroll Trio (Roger Carey on bass and Mark Fletcher on drums) at the Brecon Jazz Festival 2006; Ian Shaw guests on one trackFilmed by the BBC, the DVD is introduced by Julian Joseph.

One Good Reason

|Qnote, distributed by Universal Music

|CD (QNT 10110) on 21 July 2008{{cite web | url=http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2008/06/1901.html | title=The Passion release debut album after ten years | work=Jazz News | date=June 2008 | accessdate=20 June 2014}}

|Recorded in 2002, as part of "The Passion"{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010xwgj|title= Jazz Line-Up: The Passion |publisher= BBC Radio 3|date= 8 May 2011 |accessdate = 28 July 2018}} with Jacqui Dankworth and Sara ColmanReviewing One Good Reason for All About Jazz, Dave Major said that "at no time does one voice truly overpower the trio. Even in dense, concerted passages, you can appreciate each subtle nuance, change in vibrato or balance". {{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/one-good-reason-the-passion-qnote-records-review-by-dave-major|title=CD/LP/Track Review: The Passion: One Good Reason (2008)|author=Dave Major |website=All About Jazz |date= 26 September 2008|access-date= 11 March 2025}}

Break Even (with John Etheridge)

| Dekkor

| CD (RCD 027) on 24 November 2008{{cite web |url=https://www.propermusic.com/drcd027-break-even.html1|title= Break Even|publisher= ProperMusic.com |accessdate=1 March 2021}}

|With Hammond organist Pete Whittaker and drummer Mark FletcherGuardian reviewer John Fordham said of Break Even, "Carroll's confidence in the expressiveness of the smallest utterance gives her an irresistible eloquence, as strong at low volumes as it is at full throttle". {{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/feb/13/jazz|title=John Etheridge/Liane Carroll: Break Even|author= John Fordham|work= The Guardian|date=13 February 2009| accessdate=14 June 2011}}

Best Standard Issue

| SSG Entertainment

| CD (DC 9648) on 23 December 2008{{cite web | url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7813811 | title=Liane Carroll – Best Standard Issue CD | publisher=CD Universe | accessdate=7 September 2014}}

| This album was released in Germany. It has 17 tracks: duration 74 mins{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/best-standard-issue-mw0001266424 | title=Liane Carroll: Best Standard Issue | website=AllMusic | access-date=20 January 2024}}

Live at the Lampie (with Brian Kellock)

|Splash Point

|CD (SPR009CD) on 11 May 2009{{cite web|url=https://www.propermusic.com/spr009cd-live-at-the-lampie.html|title=Live at the Lampie|publisher= ProperMusic.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}

|Recorded live at The Blue Lamp pub in AberdeenGuardian reviewer John Fordham said of Live at the Lampie, "Since Liane Carroll can loose off a jazz-singing broadside that might touch on Betty Carter and Bobby McFerrin (with soul-vocal asides including everyone from Aretha to Stevie Wonder), and Scottish piano virtuoso Kellock has a comparable range from Fats Waller to free-improv, the potential for repetition in this duo is low. Released from her singer/pianist responsibilities, Carroll has rarely sounded more spontaneous and relaxed." {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/liane-carroll-brian-kellock-review|title=Liane Carroll/Brian Kellock: Live at the Lampie|author= John Fordham|work= The Guardian|date=14 August 2011|accessdate=13 June 2011}}

Up and Down

|Quietmoney, distributed by Proper Records

|CD (QMR0001CD) on 27 June 2011

|Recorded in London, Hastings, Brighton, Prague and Memphis, Tennessee, it features Kenny Wheeler, Kirk Whalum, Julian Siegel and James McMillan as guest soloists.{{cite news|url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/68-2011/11847-jazz-breaking-news-liane-carroll-returns-with-new-album|title=Jazz breaking news: Liane Carroll Returns With New Album |author= Stephen Graham|work= Jazzwise|date=8 April 2011|accessdate=16 June 2011}}{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/03/liane-carroll-up-down-review|title=Liane Carroll: Up and Down – review |author= Dave Gelly |work= The Observer|date=3 July 2011|accessdate= 6 July 2011}}Guardian reviewer John Fordham said of Up and Down, "Singer/pianist Carroll is a world-class act, but this is the first recording to capture the full range of her expressiveness. Up and Down embraces intimate voice/piano performances, orchestra-backed extravaganzas and jazz jams with soloists of the pedigree of Kenny Wheeler and Julian Siegel." {{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/19/film-and-music-playlist| title=F&M Playlist|author= John Fordham|work= The Guardian|date=19 May 2011|accessdate=12 June 2011|display-authors=etal}}

Ballads{{cite news | url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/liane-carroll-ballads-n6ztmhmvh52 | title=Liane Carroll: Ballads | work=The Times | date=13 April 2013 | access-date=11 March 2025 | author=John Bungey | location=London}}

| Quietmoney, distributed by Proper Records

|CD (QMR0002CD) on 15 April 2013

|Recorded in Hastings,{{cite news | url=https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/lifestyle/jazz-legend-liane-set-launch-new-album-2349426 | title=Jazz legend Liane set to launch new album | work=Hastings & St. Leonards Observer | date=15 March 2013 | accessdate=13 March 2021}} it features Mark Edwards (piano), Gwilym Simcock (piano), Julian Siegel (bass clarinet) and Kirk Whalum (tenor saxophone) with orchestration and big band arrangements by Chris Walden and includes Sophie Bancroft's song "Calgary Bay", performed with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.{{cite web | url=http://www.sophiebancroft.co.uk/ | title=Sophie Bancroft | publisher= Sophie Bancroft | accessdate=16 April 2013}}

Seaside

|Linn

|CD (AKD 533) on 18 September 2015{{Cite web |date=18 September 2015 |title=Seasise |url=https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/seaside |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=OutHere Music}}

| Recorded in Hastings, this studio album received four-starred reviews in The Guardian, The Observer and Mojo magazine.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/20/liane-carroll-seaside-review-candour-and-artistry | title=Liane Carroll: Seaside review – candour and artistry combined | work=The Observer | date=20 September 2015 | access-date=20 September 2015 | author=Dave Gelly}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/01/liane-carroll-seaside-review | title=Liane Carroll: Seaside review – in her element in this seaside set | work=The Guardian | date=1 October 2015 | access-date=10 October 2015 | author=John Fordham}}{{cite web | url=http://www.linnrecords.com/review-533-mojo.aspx | title=Liane Carroll – Seaside – Mojo | publisher=Linn Records | date=1 October 2015 | accessdate=10 October 2015 | author=Fred Dellar}} The title track was written by Joe Stilgoe

The Right to Love

|Quietmoney, distributed by Proper Records

| CD (QMR0004) in July 2017

|Produced by James McMillan, this album received four-starred reviews in The Guardian,{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/10/liane-carroll-the-right-to-love-review-elegant-vocalist-finds-new-truths |title=Liane Carroll: The Right to Love review – elegant vocalist finds new truths |last=John Lewis |date=10 August 2017 |work=The Guardian |access-date=12 August 2017}} The Observer{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/23/liane-carroll-right-to-love-review-jazz?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other |title=Liane Carroll: The Right to Love review – emotional depth, superb arrangements |last=Dave Gelly |date=23 July 2017 |work=The Observer |access-date=25 July 2017}} and the London Evening Standard.{{Cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/music/liane-carroll-the-right-to-love-review-an-expressive-voice-a3599006.html |title=Liane Carroll, The Right to Love review: An expressive voice |author=Jane Cornwell |date=28 July 2017 |work=Evening Standard |access-date=31 July 2017}}

=London Elektricity=

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Album ! Record label ! Release date ! Notes
Pull the Plug \|Hospital \|CD (NHS12CD) on 7 June 1999{{cite web \|url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Pull-The-Plug/release/32082\|title=London Elektricity – Pull The Plug\|date=7 June 1999 \|publisher=Discogs\| accessdate= 2 October 2012}} \|Liane Carroll provides vocals on two of the tracks
Billion Dollar Gravy \|Hospital \|CD (NHS56CD) on 26 May 2003{{cite web \|url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Billion-Dollar-Gravy/release/148980\| title=London Elektricity – Billion Dollar Gravy\| date=26 May 2003\|publisher=Discogs\| accessdate= 2 October 2012}} \|Liane Carroll provides vocals on some of the tracks
Live Gravy (live DVD album) \|Hospital \|DVD (NHS72DVD) on 24 May 2004{{cite web \| url=https://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Live-Gravy/release/476516 \| title=London Elektricity – Live Gravy \| date=24 May 2004 \| publisher=Discogs \| accessdate=31 July 2016}} \|A live concert at The Jazz Café, London, with two extra songs from London Elektricity's autumn 2003 tour, released on DVD
Power Ballads \|Hospital \| CD (NHS95CD) on 3 October 2005{{cite web\|url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Power-Ballads/release/532419 \|title= London Elektricity – Power Ballads\|date= 3 October 2005\| publisher= Discogs\| accessdate= 2 October 2012}} \|Liane Carroll provides vocals on four of the tracks
Medical History \|Hospital \|MP3 album (NHSDL06) on 6 December 2006{{cite web \| url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Medical-History/release/954690 \| title=London Elektricity – Medical History \| date=6 December 2006 \| publisher=Discogs \| accessdate=4 March 2013}} \|Liane Carroll takes lead vocals on five of the tracks
Syncopated City \|Hospital \|LP (NHS142LPX) on 1 September 2008; CD (NHS142CD) on 26 September 2008; Japanese Special Edition (NHS142JAPAN) with bonus tracks on 30 November 2008 \|Liane Carroll takes lead vocals on five of the tracks
Are We There Yet? \|Hospital \|LP (NHS280LP) on 6 November 2015; CD (NHS280) on 6 November 2015 \|Liane Carroll takes lead vocals on "Why Are We Here?"

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! Release date

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Pull the Plug

|Hospital

|CD (NHS12CD) on 7 June 1999{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Pull-The-Plug/release/32082|title=London Elektricity – Pull The Plug|date=7 June 1999 |publisher=Discogs| accessdate= 2 October 2012}}

|Liane Carroll provides vocals on two of the tracks

Billion Dollar Gravy

|Hospital

|CD (NHS56CD) on 26 May 2003{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Billion-Dollar-Gravy/release/148980| title=London Elektricity – Billion Dollar Gravy| date=26 May 2003|publisher=Discogs| accessdate= 2 October 2012}}

|Liane Carroll provides vocals on some of the tracks

Live Gravy (live DVD album)

|Hospital

|DVD (NHS72DVD) on 24 May 2004{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Live-Gravy/release/476516 | title=London Elektricity – Live Gravy | date=24 May 2004 | publisher=Discogs | accessdate=31 July 2016}}

|A live concert at The Jazz Café, London, with two extra songs from London Elektricity's autumn 2003 tour, released on DVD

Power Ballads

|Hospital

| CD (NHS95CD) on 3 October 2005{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Power-Ballads/release/532419 |title= London Elektricity – Power Ballads|date= 3 October 2005| publisher= Discogs| accessdate= 2 October 2012}}

|Liane Carroll provides vocals on four of the tracks

Medical History

|Hospital

|MP3 album (NHSDL06) on 6 December 2006{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/London-Elektricity-Medical-History/release/954690 | title=London Elektricity – Medical History | date=6 December 2006 | publisher=Discogs | accessdate=4 March 2013}}

|Liane Carroll takes lead vocals on five of the tracks

Syncopated City

|Hospital

|LP (NHS142LPX) on 1 September 2008; CD (NHS142CD) on 26 September 2008; Japanese Special Edition (NHS142JAPAN) with bonus tracks on 30 November 2008

|Liane Carroll takes lead vocals on five of the tracks

Are We There Yet?

|Hospital

|LP (NHS280LP) on 6 November 2015; CD (NHS280) on 6 November 2015

|Liane Carroll takes lead vocals on "Why Are We Here?"

=PTH Projects featuring Liane Carroll=

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"Pretend Paradise" \|Wah Wah 45s \|12-inch single (WAH1209) on 26 June 2006 \|Liane Carroll performs on the track "Pretend Paradise", which is coupled with "Thin Air" featuring Lara Vane{{cite web \|url= http://part-timeheroes.bandcamp.com/album/pretend-paradise-12-single\|title=Pretend Paradise 12" single\|publisher=Wah Wah 45s\| date= 2006\|accessdate= 31 July 2016}}{{Cite web \|url=https://www.discogs.com/PTH-Projects-Pretend-Paradise-Thin-Air/release/718131 \|title=PTH Projects – Pretend Paradise / Thin Air \|website=Discogs \|date=May 2006 \|access-date=28 July 2018}}
"Pretend Paradise" (remix) \|Wah Wah 45s \|12-inch single (WAH12012) on 6 June 2007 \|Track listing – Track A: "Pretend Paradise" (Parta Herois De Tempo Mix); Track B: "What The Sun Brings"{{cite web \| url=http://www.discogs.com/PTH-Projects-Featuring-Liane-Carroll-Pretend-Paradise/release/1470724 \| title=PTH Projects Featuring Liane Carroll – Pretend Paradise \| publisher=Discogs \| accessdate=9 September 2014}}

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! Notes

"Pretend Paradise"

|Wah Wah 45s

|12-inch single (WAH1209) on 26 June 2006

|Liane Carroll performs on the track "Pretend Paradise", which is coupled with "Thin Air" featuring Lara Vane{{cite web |url= http://part-timeheroes.bandcamp.com/album/pretend-paradise-12-single|title=Pretend Paradise 12" single|publisher=Wah Wah 45s| date= 2006|accessdate= 31 July 2016}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/PTH-Projects-Pretend-Paradise-Thin-Air/release/718131 |title=PTH Projects – Pretend Paradise / Thin Air |website=Discogs |date=May 2006 |access-date=28 July 2018}}

"Pretend Paradise" (remix)

|Wah Wah 45s

|12-inch single (WAH12012) on 6 June 2007

|Track listing – Track A: "Pretend Paradise" (Parta Herois De Tempo Mix); Track B: "What The Sun Brings"{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/PTH-Projects-Featuring-Liane-Carroll-Pretend-Paradise/release/1470724 | title=PTH Projects Featuring Liane Carroll – Pretend Paradise | publisher=Discogs | accessdate=9 September 2014}}

=Chris Garrick and John Etheridge with Liane Carroll=

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When The World Stopped For Snow \| Flying Blue Whale Records \| Album (FLY 8) in 2013 \|Liane Carroll sings on three of the tracks{{Cite web \|date=2013 \|title=Chris Garrick, John Etheridge With Liane Carroll – When The World Stopped For Snow \|url=https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Garrick-John-Etheridge-With-Liane-Carroll-When-The-World-Stopped-For-Snow/release/11795661 \|access-date=1 March 2021 \|website=Discogs}}

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When The World Stopped For Snow

| Flying Blue Whale Records

| Album (FLY 8) in 2013

|Liane Carroll sings on three of the tracks{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Chris Garrick, John Etheridge With Liane Carroll – When The World Stopped For Snow |url=https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Garrick-John-Etheridge-With-Liane-Carroll-When-The-World-Stopped-For-Snow/release/11795661 |access-date=1 March 2021 |website=Discogs}}

=Compilation albums=

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Hospital Accapellas \|Hospital \|CD (NHS171) on 12 July 2010 \|Features various Hospital Records artists. Includes one track by Liane Carroll ("The Trap" [A cappella]). She is also lead vocalist on five of the six London Elektricity tracks{{cite web\|url=https://www.hospitalrecords.com/shop/release/various-artists/nhs171-hospital-accapellas\|title= Various Artists: Hospital Accapellas\| publisher= Hospital Records\| accessdate= 2 November 2015}}

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Hospital Accapellas

|Hospital

|CD (NHS171) on 12 July 2010

|Features various Hospital Records artists. Includes one track by Liane Carroll ("The Trap" [A cappella]). She is also lead vocalist on five of the six London Elektricity tracks{{cite web|url=https://www.hospitalrecords.com/shop/release/various-artists/nhs171-hospital-accapellas|title= Various Artists: Hospital Accapellas| publisher= Hospital Records| accessdate= 2 November 2015}}