Jazz Musician. A pianist, singer, and composer, she is remembered for countless performances and recordings over a long career. Born Barbara Carole Coppersmith, she began piano study at five, at 15 formed her own ensemble, attended the New England Conservatory of music, then in 1947 moved to New York and began performing in jazz clubs under the name 'Bobbie Carroll' to hide the fact that she was a girl attempting to break into what was then a men-only profession. Barbara joined Dizzy Gillespie and began a long association with Tony Bennett, then in 1951 cut her first recordings for Atlantic Records; she made her 1953 Broadway debut playing a rehearsal pianist in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Me & Juliet", the show running for 10 months and producing the song "No Other Love". She was to partner with Benny Goodman, Charlie Byrd, and others touring the country as well as becoming a fixture on the New York jazz scene, always called upon for her signature "You Fascinate Me So". Busy in the studio, she recorded numerous albums for RCA and Verve, but in 1962, following the birth of her daughter, withdrew from performing. Starting to resume occasional appearances a decade later, she fully resumed her career when recruited by Rita Coolidge for a 1975 project and from that point on never stopped; an acknowledged Cole Porter expert who could play the great master's entire canon from memory, she later turned her attention to Stephen Sondheim and put her own spin on his "Old Friends". Barbara received multiple awards, remained active in the top New York Cabaret venues, in December of 2016 released her final album which was entitled "Barbara Carroll Plays Birdland", and died with most of her massive legacy still available.