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Barbara Jungfer: Vitamin B-3

by Scott Andrews
November 25, 2004

German jazz guitarist and composer Barbara Jungfer has been on the European jazz scene for over a decade. Her 2001 release Vitamin B-3 features eight original compositions and one standard in an organ trio format.The mellow vibe of hollow-body guitar and sustained Hammond chords accentuates the somber mood of Jungfer's songs. The mid-tempo, finger-picked track “Back Home" opens with a blues shuffle. “Dawn Bird" and the Herzog/Holiday standard “God Bless the Child" ease through the middle of the ...