Carol Kidd

Disc One features Carol Kidd with:

The Sandy Taylor Trio
Sandy Taylor - piano
Alex Moore - bass guitar
Murray Smith - drums (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19)

The David Newton Trio
David Newton - piano
Dave Green - bass
Allan Ganley - drums (tracks 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18)

Also featuring:
Tony McLellan - drums
Nigel Clark, Dominic Ashworth - acoustic guitar
Fraser Spiers - harmonica
The Adrian Driver Orchestra
Andy Morris, Andrew Martin - violin
Ian Budd - viola
Jeremy Fletcher - cello
Martin Taylor - guitar
Bruce Adams - trumpet, flugel horn
Dave McLellan - trumpet
George Kidd - trombone
Frank Patrini - tenor saxophone
Gordon Cruickshank - baritone saxophone

Disc Two features Carol Kidd with:

Sandy Taylor Trio
Sandy Taylor - piano
Murray Smith - drums
Alex Moore - bass guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19)

David Newton Trio
David Newton - piano
Dave Green - bass
Allan Ganley - drums (tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15)

Also featuring:
Tony McLellan - drums
Nigel Clark, Dominic Ashworth - acoustic guitar
Fraser Spiers - harmonica
Adrian Driver Orchestra
Andy Morris, Andrew Martin - violin
Ian Budd - viola
Jeremy Fletcher - cello
Martin Taylor - guitar
Bruce Adams - trumpet, flugel horn
Dave McLellan - trumpet
George Kidd - trombone
Frank Patrini - tenor saxophone
Gordon Cruickshank - baritone saxophone

As one of Britain’s most respected ambassadors in the field worldwide, cult figure and international award winner, Jazz singer Carol Kidd continues to win fans the world over. “The Very Best of Carol Kidd” features tracks that span her twenty-year career. A combination of “The Best of Carol Kidd” Volumes 1 and 2, this is a must-have addition to any Carol Kidd collection, or a perfect introduction to the voice Cleo Laine called “world class”. “The Very Best of Carol Kidd” features music by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart and Hoagy Carmichael and includes the track When I Dream, which kept Robbie Williams and Britney Spears off the No 1 spot in Korea for 13 weeks in 2002!

"The most talented mainstream singer this country has ever produced" New Note Jazz Journal
“Britain’s finest Jazz vocalist” Music Week

From the beginning of Carol’s impressive career, her albums were extremely well received and cemented her place in the jazz world as a respected recording artist, building on her already superb reputation in the jazz club and concert hall. Carol has received accolades from Frank Sinatra Carol Kidd is the best kept secret of British Jazz and Tony Bennett You should be world-famous. Where've you been?; as well as being voted Best Performer at the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival and Best Vocalist at the Cannes International Jazz Awards. “The Very Best of Carol Kidd” features tracks from “The Night We Called it a Day” which was voted Best Jazz Recording at the UK Music Retailers Awards.

To many of her fans, and critics alike, Carol is up there with the jazz greats. She has received favourable comparisons with Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Billie Holliday and has had continued praise from modern and traditional jazz performers. Whether a long-time collector or first-time fan, this is one jazz CD you cannot afford to be without.