Showing posts with label Patricia Barber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patricia Barber. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

Patricia Barber – Companion (1999) [MFSL Remastered 2003]

Patricia Barber – Companion (1999) [MFSL Remastered 2003]
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab


'Companion' was recorded in a special three-night series of shows in July, 1999 at Chicago's famed Green Mill jazz club - an unusually short amount of time to produce a live album.


Tracklist

1. The Beat Goes On
2. Use Me
3. Like JT
4. Let It Rain
5. Touch of Trash
6. If This Isn't Jazz
7. Black Magic Woman
8. You Are My Sunshine

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Patricia Barber - Modern Cool (1998) [MFSL Remastered 2003]

Patricia Barber - Modern Cool (1998) [MFSL Remastered 2003]
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab


The dark, smoky voice of Patricia Barber is quite haunting. On Modern Cool, she mostly sings downbeat songs at slow tempos. All but three songs are her own originals, and they deal with such subject matter as a "homage to beauty" that seems to connect painting one's face with prostitution, loneliness, mindless conformity, the "postmodern blues" and other depressing topics. Even her treatments of "You and the Night and the Music" and "Light My Fire" make one think that she is utterly bored with life. Barber, whose piano playing is mostly very much in the background, comes across on this set as a pop/folk singer. Most of the jazz moments are provided by trumpeter Dave Douglas, who is on half of the selections and adds some much-needed excitement; guitarist John McLean, bassist Michael Arnopol, and drummer/percussionist Mark Walker complete the group. This set is definitely for specialized tastes.


Tracklist

1. Touch Of Trash
2. Winter
3. You & The Night & The Music
4. Constantinople
5. Light My Fire
6. Silent Partner
7. Company
8. Let It Rain
9. She's A Lady
10. Love, Put On Your Faces
11. Postmodern Blues
12. Let It Rain-Vamp
13. The Fool On The Hill

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Patricia Barber - Nightclub (2002) [MFSL Remastered 2004]

Patricia Barber - Nightclub (2002) [MFSL Remastered 2004]
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab


On Nightclub, Patricia Barber extends an invitation for us to stay up late and keep her company in on intimate aural incubus of sound, as the neon lights invite denizens of the night to alight at a ringside table and throw down another bottle of wine, as the syncopated sister at her ebony piano - backlit in soft focus like some film noire Dietrich - intones some things borrowed, and others blued. The room is transformed into a sonic womb, as this weaver of dreams sits at her loom, wafting lazily behind the beat with her sing-song phrasing and coy percussive attack, leaving her bassist and drummer to finish the phrase, with just enough space between the chords of this collective rumination for the rest of us to write our own film treatments in the diffuse azure haze of self-reflection.
That my friend is a jazz singer, and in a sense, the nightclub is Patricia Barber's true home, a place where we can kick back and share another smoke, as she illuminates a subtext fraught with danger and ambiguity, through a soundscape of silences and pauses other more giddy song-birds might overlook in their impatience to race through the form, whence they might commence to scoobydoowoh… spotlight on moi. …


Tracklist

1. Bye Bye Blackbird
2. Invitation
3. Yesterdays
4. Just For The Thrill
5. You Don't Know Me
6. Alfie
7. Autumn Leaves
8. Summer Samba
9. All Or Nothing At All
10. So In Love
11. A Man & A Woman
12. I Fall In Love Too Easily
13. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town


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Patricia Barber – Monday Night Live at the Green Mill, Volume II (2011)

Patricia Barber – Monday Night Live at the Green Mill, Volume II (2011)
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ #002 In The Series


"Here is the download some of my fans have been waiting for, the softer side of the repertoire. That summer our Quartet, Neal Alger on guitar, Eric Montzka on drums, Larry Kohut on bass, was finding its sound and place within the wider world. From the stage at The Green Mill, Lawrence and Broadway - I hope you like the music as much as I do. Love, Patricia Barber"


Tracklist

1. Triste (10:00)
2. Like JT (11:47)
3. I Fall In Love Too Easily (4:43)
4. Blue Bossa (12:58)
5. On The Road Again (9:34)
6. Post Modern Blues (7:24)
7. Smile (5:45)
8. The Beat Goes On (5:50)
9. Summertime (6:23)
total time: (74:21)


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Patricia Barber - Verse (2002) [MFSL Remastered 2005]

Patricia Barber - Verse (2002) [MFSL Remastered 2005]
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab/UDSACD 2027


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, taking her deeper into avant-garde territory both lyrically and instrumentally. Verse is no exception. Case in point: "I Could Eat Your Words," a canny bit of word play in the tradition of "Peel Me a Grape," in which Barber barely gets away with words like "provocation" and "syllogistically," only to sum things up with the devastating line, "sip the spit from your bittersweet rhyme." The indelible track here, though, has to be "If I Were Blue," featuring the line, "If I were blue, like David Hockney's pool/Dive into me and glide under a California sky/Inside your mouth and nose and eyes am I." It's perhaps the best thing Barber has ever written -- it could be considered serious modern poetry if only it didn't rhyme. About the biggest complaint one can lodge against Barber is her insistent denial of melody. Her voice is soft, almost matter-of-fact, and she more or less hints at singing. Obviously, lyrical intent is more important to Barber than how she carries a tune, and her voice does seem more suited to whispering torch songs cabaret-style, such as on "Dansons la Gigue," than delivering any vocal gymnastics. It's just that sometimes her songs could be showcased better with a consistently delivered vocal melody. However, she makes up for her lack of sonorousness (to use a Barber kind of word) with intricate musical arrangements, this time around augmented by the Miles Davis-cum-Lester Bowie trumpet of Dave Douglas. Barber's is a world of cloaked intentions, and Douglas' playful vibrato works like the flame of a candle illuminating her soft, shadowy corners.


Tracklist

1. The Moon (6:04)
2. Lost in This Love (3:01)
3. Clues (4:58)
4. Pieces (5:35)
5. I Could Eat Your Words (7:51)
6. The Fire (4:52)
7. Regular Pleasures (5:44)
8. Dansons La Gigue (4:20)
9. You Gotta Go Home (3:17)
10. If I Were Blue (6:01)


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Patricia Barber - Mythologies (2006)

Patricia Barber - Mythologies (2006)
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ Blue Note Records


Chicagoan singer and pianist Patricia Barber - one of the few jazz musicians to receive the prestigious honor of a Guggenheim Fellowship - expresses unique, personal ambition with this album, which consists entirely of Barber originals. Each song of "Mythologies" represents a character from ancient Greek folklore. But fear not, this isn't some dry or pretentious mythology lesson - as most characters in Greek myth are ascribed human feelings, Barber draws on them to delve into emotional states (positive and negative) common to all. "Icarus (for Nina Simone)" represents a rise to dizzying heights with a high price to pay afterward. The contemplative "The Hours" is both a blues for humanity and a cry for salvation, intensified by an impassioned guitar solo and pleading gospel-charged chorus. Patricia Barber's voice is smoky, wise, and unhurried - that of a born storyteller. Her accompaniment (guitar, bass, drums, plus occasional alto saxophone and background vocals) provides unfussy, concise embellishments to her story-songs, along with brief, inventive ventures into funk and hip-hop.


Tracklist

1. The Moon
2. Morpheus
3. Pygmalion
4. Hunger
5. Icarus
6. Orpheus/Sonnet
7. Persephone
8. Narcissus
9. Whiteworld/Oedipus
10. Phaethon
11. The Hours


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Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue (1994) [MFSL Remastered 2002]

Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue (1994) [MFSL Remastered 2002]
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Genre ~ Contemporary, Vocal Jazz | Label ~ Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab/UDSACD 2002


Patricia Barber, who is both a fine keyboardist and an atmospheric singer, contributes roughly half of the material to her Premonition debut. Her dark voice and the generally esoteric program takes awhile to get used to (listeners will have to be patient), but after two or three listens, this thought-provoking and rather moody set becomes more accessible. The music ranges stylewise from sophisticated pop sensitivities to the avant-garde and even touches of minimalism, while not fitting securely into any category. Barber gives a new slant to "The Thrill Is Gone," "Ode to Billy Joe," and even "A Taste of Honey," and her vocals are all quite haunting and contemporary. An added plus to this unusual music is adventurous guitarist John McLean.


Tracklist

1. What A Shame
2. Mourning Grace
3. The Thrill Is Gone
4. Romanesque
5. Yellow Car III
6. Wood Is A Pleasant Thing To Think About
7. Inch Worm
8. Ode To Billy Joe
9. Too Rich For My Blood
10.A Taste Of Honey
11.Nardis
12.Manha De Carnaval


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