Carroll Girls

Subtitled - Tripping with the Texas Girls. The best girl bands of the 60's and 70's which produced the first 'punk' tracks. From totally unknown Connie Carroll to the most famous Texan female rocker Janis Joplin (this CD features her first recordings!). Features also the mythical Heartbeats. This 'Hors Serie' volume shows the diversity, energy and genuineness of these fresh and crazy Texan ladies. Includes tracks from, the Brazen Huzzies, the Word D, the Heartbeats, Lou Ann Barton, the Bombshells, Janis Joplin and more. Digitally re-mastered. 2002.

Featuring 28 tracks by 'West Coast Girls', including the Blossoms, Donna Loren, the Delicates, Dorothy Berry, Yvonne Carroll, & more. Ace. 1995.

Let us first salute the title, given by the publisher, and undoubtedly also by Jean-Paul Ricard and Jean Buzelin, co-responsible for this edition: Jazz Ladies, and not Women in Jazz as in the past, or even “girls » as was also the case. Not the “women” of jazz, a term that is used everywhere, but the “ladies”. We do say “ladies and gentlemen” after all. This time, the ladies are entitled to three CDs, one more than usual. The tenacity of Jean-Paul Ricard, a great specialist on the subject for years, collector of records and CDs, therefore produces its effect, and it is with pleasure and a certain amazement that we see the list of instrumentalists lengthening female who has practiced jazz. And again, the usual rights reasons limited the selection to the year 1962. We suspect that if we could go to the present day, we would need a good dozen cakes. Because, even if the figures do not seem to indicate a break in the famous “glass ceiling”, the presence of “ladies” is not weakening, and is even strengthening. Let us add that female singers are not included in this selection, except obviously the cases (not rare at all) of instrumentalists whom the producers pushed into singing, for financial reasons.

The Numero Group is an archival record label that creates compilations of previously released music, reissues original albums, and creates album reconstructions from a variety of musical genres. The label, known as Numero, was founded in 2003 by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shipley. The label's focus since its 2003 founding has been to research and preserve obscure recorded material and ephemera by artists and entrepreneurs who found little commercial success upon their material's initial release.