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Alright I Love You - Celebrating Lyricists Dorothy Parker and Carolyn Leigh
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates two legendary lyricists: Dorothy Parker in the first hour and Carolyn Leigh in the second. Other highlights include new releases from pianist Patricia Barber, harpist Brandee Younger and a special project by vocalist Sarah Partridge celebrating women of science plus birthday shoutouts to Fostina Dixon, Naomi Moon Siegel, Trudy Pitts, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Linda May Han Oh and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of ...
read morePatricia Barber: Clique
by Tyran Grillo
These time-honored songs, lovingly curated, arranged, and performed by pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber and her band, are at last seeing the light of day when the world needs them more than ever. Pristinely recorded, Clique assembles what began as encores to live performances into an experience all its own. The album comes out of the same sessions that gave us Higher (see review for All About Jazz here), which immersed the fortunate listener in a world shaped by art song and ...
read morePaul Bley, Yazz Ahmed, Gianluigi Trovesi, Matthieu Michel and tons of great new releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Accordion players, saxophonists, clarinet and trombone players as well as compelling singers are at the heart of this week's focus on new releases. Give a listen and then make sure to support the musicians and the labels that put out this amazing music so that the prolific jazz phase we live in can go on, and possibly keep getting better... Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Massimiliano Milesi “Redshift" Oofth (Auand) ...
read morePatricia Barber: Higher
by Tyran Grillo
Patricia Barber is more than the sum of her talents. As a composer, she peels back the craft of song to expose its barest textures, cultivating each like a tree that, while holding its own shape above ground, makes apparent the roots below it. As a singer, she understands not only that we perform our voices but also that our voices perform us. Whether crooning through the Great American Songbook, as on Nightclub (Blue Note, 2000), or rowing through intensely ...
read moreA Conversation with Pianist and Singer Patricia Barber
by Lorens Chuno
Patricia Barber's new album, Higher, is a storybook of songs complete with captivating—and sometimes outré—lyrics and a masterful story teller. Join Patricia and me, as she talks about art songs, European audience vs American audience, Shirley Horn, and other subtly related subjects. Higher features Patricia Barber on piano and voice, Patrick Mulcahy on bass, Jon Deitemyer on drums, Neal Alger on acoustic guitar, Jim Gailloreto on tenor saxophone, and Katherine Werbiansky on voice. Playlist ...
read morePatricia Barber: Smash
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/pianist Patricia Barber's 25-year career has been brilliantly marked by a complete unwillingness to compromise her approach to music. She exists in that uncharted creative realm where she successfully defies classification as a purveyor of any particular musical movement or genre. These characteristics spotlight Barber's role as an innovator and catalyst for musical evolution, a musician performing from the front edge rather than the middle of the creative muse. Barber readily shows her chops with standard and original material on ...
read morePatricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix
by George Kanzler
The mix here is a Cole Porter cocktail, a dry martini but with a touch of jalapeno instead of olive. And while there are strains of melancholy, as Barber says in the notes: “Cole Porter never wrote a song that said 'I'm miserable.'" That jalapeno heat comes from the evocative jazz arrangements and solos, especially those of guest tenor saxophonist Chris Potter (on five of the 13 tracks) and acoustic and electric guitarist Neal Alger, as well as the singer's ...
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