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Meet the Producers

Meet the Producers

It is a team with linked arms who brings you Carol Sloane’s story. This team includes executive producers Stephen Barefoot, film director-editor Michael Lippert and L. Taylor Arnold, plus associate producers Donna Campbell and Georgann Eubanks, with indefatigable support from chief archival research associates Karen Eileen Birch, Roy C. Dicks and Michael Weaver. READ MORE


Five Questions with the Director

"Director Michael Lippert’s homage to the great “unknown” jazz legend, Carol Sloane doesn’t just introduce you to someone you may not have known, it makes you fall in love with her. And jazz. It makes you wonder why you don’t know her name and forces you to consider the possibility that out there, in the shopping mall parking lot or at your pharmacy, other greats walk unknown." READ MORE

Carol Sloane and Stephen Barefoot

A Long Friendship Seeds a Documentary

In the mid-70s, I was a 20-something returned Peace Corps volunteer who had served a three-year term in East Africa. Back home in NC, I got a job as a desk clerk at the Raleigh Hilton - but didn’t last long as they failed to appreciate my reasons nor accept my refusal to wear the most god-awful official company necktie ever stitched.... READ MORE


You Can Call Me Sloane

Friends and family have called her “Sloane” for almost the entirety of her career. Born Carol Morvan, she says she'd settled on the name "Carol Vann" by the time she had her first paying gig when she was 14, but band leader Larry Elgart didn't think the name worked.

"He'd introduce me as Carol Rogers or Carol Price or Carol Anything til I felt I didn't have any identity at all! After I’d moved to New York, I used to walk from mid-town to my apartment in the Village every day after my secretarial job, and my trip took me right by an elegant, up-scale furniture store called W.J. Sloane. That was it. I told Larry I wanted to be Carol Sloane - and he agreed without debate...READ MORE


Memorial Tributes

In June 2020, Carol Sloane suffered a stroke at her apartment near Boston. Sensing "something coming on," she called 911 and was soon rushed by ambulance to the hospital. Not one of her friends or close contacts had a clue what had happened or where she was. It would be a week later, through a series of coincidences, that a close friend would locate her and learn of the circumstances. Carol remained in hospitals and at a healthcare/rehabilitation center in Stoneham, MA, for her remaining days.

Speech and mobility became more difficult during 2022. The severe arthritis in her hands and fingers meant that Carol was no longer able to write, type or participate in social media. In-person visits, and daily mail received became her main forms of communicating with friends and fans, with postcards and letters received bringing her great joy. On my final conversation with Carol, the week before her passing, she softly whispered in broken speech, “I haven’t had this much fan mail in fifty years,” referring to voluminous mail she had begun to receive from persons who’d seen preliminary screenings of the documentary in early January 2023.

Carol passed away 30 days prior to her film’s world premiere.