NEW RELEASES : In Brief

* * * BARBARA CARROLL, “This Love of Mine,” DRG. This may well be the best rounded portrait of Carroll. Her piano is gentle and graceful, whether accompanied or solo (“Some Other Time”). Her voice, cool and casual, does justice to Arthur Hamilton’s “Rain Sometime,” Cy Coleman’s “On Second Thought” and the Rodgers-Hart “Why Can’t I?” As a composer she offers a charming waltz, “In Some Other World” and the swinging study in 5/4 time, “Sweet Lilacs.” She has the assistance here and there of Jerome Richardson on saxes and Art Farmer on flumpet (a cross between trumpet and fluegelhorn).

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