After the amazing success of her first Shakespeare & Jazz album in 2012, and her standard album "Don't Explain" with songs from the 40ties in 2013, Caroll released her second Shakespeare & Jazz album in October 2014. With her own compositions on the Shakespeare sonnets, she creates a ground breaking, fresh and emotional jazzy sound. The amazing intensity of the compositions and the accuracy and intensity of her voice, elevates Shakespeare's words to a new dimension. Together with her musicians: Thomas Siffling, whose elegant melodies on the trumpet and flugelhorn intertwine with Caroll’s expressive and warm voice, fellow musician Mini Schulz, smoothly stroking or groovy plucking on the contrabass for added texture, and band member Ralf Gustke accenting the flexible rhythms with the drums and various percussion instruments, Caroll Vanwelden has once again produced a rich tapestry for jazz lovers around the world.

Press quotes

* Stereo Magazine by Thomas Hintze 12/2014 "Audiophiles Highlight des Monats" und 5/5 stars Klang und Musik

* Fono Forum 12/2014 5/5 Stars Klang und Musik

* Album of the Week by NDR (North German Broadcasting) in the program Play Jazz! by Mauretta Heinzelmann

* Jazzthing by Christoph Giese 106/2014”….Vanwelden has once more succeeded to bring big literature into music, with a lot of colour-fantasy, open atmospheres, very interesting rhythmical structures and a poppy drive”

* Kurier Deutschland “…..an absolute must in your collection!”

* Financial Times Deutschland „Gripping, zestful, optimistic and gleeful, subtly iridescent or dreamily light, the notes make Shakespeare’s words stronger. And through them, a whole new world of Shakespeare is revealed, complete with contemporary tone colors and music styles. An enthralling experience with fascinating transformations—simply inspirational! [Translation]“

* North German Broadcasting (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR) spoke of a “poetry of beauty” and commented that Vanwelden “pleasantly transposes Shakespeare’s rhythms, with minimalistic repetitions and also the occasional complicated time signature change. The sonnet-songs glide along in a nearly hypnotic flow. [Translation]” (NDR)

* Concerto (Austria) by Gerhard Strejcek 8.10.2012 …..On this album you'll find amazing art at the same level as Norma Winstone, Diana Krall or Randy Crawford.

* Fono Forum (Deutschland) by Thomas Hintze 12/2012 …..This album has all the potential to be elected as album of the year.

* Crescendo (Deutschland) by Anna Hermann 12.10 2012 ….resumed as an amazing european Jazzalbum

2016 will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

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