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Verse
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: -The Moon 6:06
-Lost In This Love 3:03
-Clues 5:01
-Pieces 5:37
-I Could Eat Your Words 7:54
-The Fire 4:54
-Regular Pleasures 5:46
-Dansons La Gigue 4:23 (adapted from text by Paul Verlaine)
-You Gotta Go Home 3:20
-If I Were Blue 5:56
Patricia Barber: Verse
by Roger Crane
Verse is Patricia Barber's seventh album since her 1989 debut, Split, on the little known and poorly distributed Floyd Records, named after her musician father, Floyd Barber. Her second album, A Distortion of Love , was released on the Verve Antilles label and did not appear until three years later, but it brought the Chicago-based singer ...
A Distortion of Love
Label: PolyGram Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Summertime; Subway Station No.5; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Parts Parallels; Or Not To Be; Yellow Car; Yet Another in a Series of Yellow Car; I Never Went Away; My Girl; By Myself
Patricia Barber: Verse
by Jim Santella
Eclectic in everything she does, Patricia Barber has come up with a winner in Verse. Sound samples may be found at www.patriciabarber.com . All original material, Barber's songs tell stories and bring each tale's meaning around emphatically through modern mainstream jazz interpretations. Reaching into folk song territory, the vocalist provides timeless spiritual communication: made for jazz ...
Patricia Barber: Verse
by Paul West
Patricia Barber's newest hybrid of cocktail hour blues and lush vocals jazz is on ample display in Verse, and the result is must listening - and on all ten tracks. Barber's ability to play by her own rules is remarkably assured and stylistically controlled, having a freedom many artists are rarely granted, a tribute to Barber's ...
Patricia Barber: A Distortion of Love
by William Grim
Singer/pianist Patricia Barber never fails to amaze with her original material and her very unique takes on old standards. She is that rarest of jazz musicians--highly thoughtful, at times even cerebral, but always swinging--the kind of jazz musician Gerry Mulligan used to call a “wailing wig." A Distortion of Love from 1992 showcases Patricia ...
Carla Cook: Just a Swingin' and a Groovin'
by Mathew Bahl
On the question of categories, Carla Cook will say this much: “I'm definitely a jazz singer in that I like to improvise and I like to swing." Beyond that, the subject doesn't interest her. “I don't spend a lot of time haggling with the word “jazz,?" she explains. “I let the “Jazz Police" handle that. I ...
Patricia Barber: Nightclub
by Mathew Bahl
The harping of rigid purists or self-proclaimed visionaries aside, the enduring strength of jazz has always been its ability to accommodate both tradition and innovation. Patricia Barber has done plenty of experimenting on albums like Café Blue, Modern Cool and Companion. Her smartly crafted originals and reinventions of rock tunes like “Light My Fire” and “The ...
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