Patricia Barber

Patricia Barber
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Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Post-Bop, Cabaret
Biography: Patricia Barber's unique style and unusual voice made her an easy target for critics in the early days of her career. Her piano playing and singing, while inventive, never ventured close enough to the avant-garde to earn her artistic license, and her insistence on writing her own material and adapting ...Read full biography
Verse
Released: 2002
Label: Koch Entertainment
Critics' Rating:
Pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber is the Alanis Morissette of the jazz world. Her serpentine, poetic songs teeter between deftly witty and awkwardly Latinate. Each album is more ambitious than the last, ...Read full review
The Cole Porter Mix
Released: 2008
Label: Angel
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Jazz songwriter and pianist Patricia Barber's 2006 album Mythologies, a song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphosis, is a sprawling work of poetic and musical adventure. Upon its release, it garnered universal ...Read full review
More Patricia Barber albums: Main Albums (11), Compilations (5)
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