Ballads (Liane Carroll album)
| Ballads | ||||
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| Released | 15 April 2013 (UK) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Quietmoney Recordings, distributed by Proper Records, CD (QMR0002CD) | |||
| Producer | James McMillan | |||
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Ballads is a studio album by English jazz pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll. It was released in April 2013 by Quietmoney Recordings and distributed by Proper Records.
The album was recorded in Hastings, Sussex, England and produced by James McMillan. 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.
The album received four-starred reviews in The Observer, The Guardian, the London Evening Standard and LondonJazz.