A Distortion Of Love (Remastered) Patricia Barber

• 1 Summertime 06:15
• 2 Subway Station #5 09:33
• 3 You Stepped Out Of A Dream 07:38
• 4 Parts Parallels 05:07
• 5 Or Not To Be 07:04
• 6 Yellow Car 05:51
• 7 Yet Another In A Long Series Of Yellow Car 04:28
• 8 I Never Went Away 04:39
• 9 My Girl 03:45
• 10 By Myself 04:58
• Total Runtime 59:18

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Jazzsängerin Patricia Barber machte sich mit ihrem Gesang, ihrer kühnen Originalität, ihrem poetischen Anspruch und ihrem meisterhaften Klavierspiel insbesondere unter Audiophilen einen Namen. Nach ihrem Debutalbum 'Split' unterschrieb Barber bei Antilles und veröffentlichte dort 1992 'A Distortion Of Love'. Bereits hier bewies sie ihr enormes Können, unter anderem mit der gruselig anmutenden, beinahe geisterhaften Interpretation des Klassikers 'Summertime'. Das darauffolgende 'Subway Station No. 5' ist gespickt mit Tonwechseln und Kontrapunkten, um sich einem Swing-Thema aufzulösen.

Patricia Barber, Klavier, Gesang
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Gitarre
Marc Johnson, Bass
Adam Nussbaum, Schlagzeug, Shakers, Finger Snaps
Carla White, Finger Snaps
Big Kahuna, Finger Snaps

Recorded on November 25th-27th & 29th, 1991
Produced by Brian Bacchus

Digitally remastered

Patricia Barber Patricia Barber has been in the vanguard of the new school of female jazz vocalists who in the past several decades have been exploring intriguing improvisational terrain beyond classic balladry and bop-infused standards. She was born in a suburb of Chicago to a saxophone-playing father, Floyd "Shim" Barber, who had played with Glenn Miller. After studying classical piano and psychology at the University of Iowa, Barber moved back to Chicago to play jazz and in 1984 landed the gig that launched her career, playing five nights a week at the famed Gold Star Sardine Bar. Before long there were lines outside the door on weekends. Her following grew larger and more fanatical when, in 1994, she moved her base of operations to the Green Mill, the north side club that is the nerve center of the indigenous Chicago jazz scene.

Barber has recorded seven albums, including two previous full-length CDs for Blue Note/Premonition, modern cool (1998) and Nightclub (2000), and the Blue Note/Premonition six-track EP Companion (1999). Her major label debut was A Distortion Of Love, on Antilles, in 1992. But for most of her current audience, it all began with café blue, on Premonition (later Blue Note/Premonition), in 1994. It hit like something inexplicable, introducing a voice one critic described as "a pure dark whisper straight up from the soul" and a distinct onstage persona that has been characterized as "a beat musician and a bop intellectual." café blue led to Barber winning the "Female Vocalist/Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" category in the 1995 Down Beat International Critics Poll (an honor that she has since consistently claimed).