Jazz Articles about Steve Barton

Steve Barton: Tall Tales And Alibis

by Doug Collette
March 11, 2018

Like Bob Dylan's Triplicate (Columbia, 2017), Steve Barton's Tall Tales And Alibis recounts a rite of passage in three parts. But even though the once and future member of Translator only assigns specific sub-titles once (in the recording credits), his journey from darkness to light is as explicit as that of the Nobel Laureate's, perhaps even more so, as it transits chronologically through a psychic transformation reflected in the recordings. Barton takes a literal as well as metaphysical ...