Chris Parker, reviewing the album for " LondonJazz ", said : " Carroll does not merely interpret these songs, she inhabits them, intimately confiding in her listeners so that everything from Todd Rundgren s Pretending to Care and Carole King s Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow to more conventional jazz standards ( Mad About the Boy, My One and Only Love ) is imbued with unaffectedly sincere, heartfelt emotion ".
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It may not be precisely what we were expecting, but it invariably gives us the impression of being written forthright, of being the sincere record of something sincerely seen or unaffectedly felt . [ . . . ] I myself feel that Mr . Holbrooke's four symphonic poems [ " The Raven ", " The Skeleton in Armour ", " Ulalume " and " The Masque of the Red Death " ] will one day be recognised as something absolutely new in English or in any other music.
