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Linda Carone

Vintage Jazz and Blues Vocalist from Toronto, Canada. An early passion for jazz and blues developed upon first hearing the raw and emotive melancholy of Billie Holiday. This inspiration laid the foundation for growth as a vocalist and as an artist. Linda’s musical journey was further influenced by jazz and blues vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Mildred Bailey, Helen Humes, Valaida Snow and Lil Hardin Armstrong


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Linda Carone: So Many Beautiful Men, So Little Time

Read "So Many Beautiful Men, So Little Time" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Canadian vocalist Linda Carone specializes in what she calls “vintage" jazz and blues. The sound is that of the music originally emerging from New Orleans Dixieland or traditional jazz as it headed upriver to Chicago before catching a train for Prohibition-era New York City. Her debut recording, Black Moonlight (Self Produced, 2017) is a historically-informed collection of speakeasy music, organically rendered and enjoyed. Carone returns three years later with a single release to brighten our time of COVID-19 ...

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"Plenty of jazz vocalists have great voices. Many of them explore the treausres of the Great American Songbook. Linda Carone gets full marks for both and makes it all infinitely more interesting by interpreting far from exploited gems from the jazz/blues oeuvre, going right back to the 1920s. Who knew there were so many relatively under-heard tunes? In the hands of a wonderful singer and a first class team of players, these old songs perform the seemingly contradictory feat of blasting new life into an established genre" Mark Rheaume CBC Radio

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Lemon Twist

Self Produced
2023

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So Many Beautiful...

Linda Carone Music
2020

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Black Moonlight

Vintage Jazz & Blues
2017

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