Patricia Barber

...to the Black Power Movement.) The drummer has worked with Chicagoans such as Von Freeman, Malachi Thompson, Bobby Broom, Patricia Barber, and Kurt Elling, and for the last 15 years with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, serving as its music...

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Lastly, the insert includes a question-answer interview by reporter Michael Jackson with pianist, composer and performer Patricia Barber. It sheds light on the artist's impressions of her Montreal stints and incidentally reveals some of her...

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Potter has released a number of albums as leader and has performed and recorded with many leading musicians including Patricia Barber, Kenny Werner, Red Rodney, Marian McPartland, the Mingus Big Band, Paul Motian, Ray Brown , Jim Hall ,...

In this article: Chris Potter, Adam Rogers, Kevin Hays, Scott Colley, Concord, Vertigo, Nate Smith, and Joanne Brackeen

Patricia Barber (born 24 March 1956 in Chicago) is an American jazz singer, pianist, songwriter, and bandleader. She was born to parents who were both professional musicians; her father is Floyd "Shim" Barber, a former member of Glenn...

In this article: Cole Porter, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Black Magic Woman, Ode to Billie Joe, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, South Sioux City, Nebraska, and Chicago

...from here In Britain - well, London - we like to think that all great music passes our way. But in her long career Patricia Barber, a Chicago singer of cool intelligence, has scarcely dropped by. A fleeting appearance in 2006 at...

In this article: Norah Jones, Cole Porter, Diana Krall, Chicago, London, and Paris

So it was only a matter of time before Neal Alger stepped forward to make a statement of his own. As sideman with vocalists Patricia Barber and Typhanie Monique, Alger has proved a consistently witty foil. But that's different than leading...

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...Jazz Festival The Bellevue Jazz Festival, with main stage acts Dianne Reeves, the Mingus Big Band, Kurt Elling, Mose Allison, Patricia Barber and Danilo Perez, takes place at Meydenbauer Center and other downtown Bellevue venues May...

In this article: Dianne Reeves, Jose Gonzales, Danilo Perez, Kurt Elling, and Mose Allison

Jazz pianist and singer-songwriter Patricia Barber often brings a certain physicality and willfulness to her performances, and that certainly was the case at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Friday night. Read the rest of the review...

In this article: Cole Porter, You're the Top, and Antonio Carlos Jobim

Patricia Barber sings with a cool, insinuating delivery, as if she's whispering in your ear over a very dry martini in a smoky dive. So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz vocalist and pianist was well-suited to...

In this article: Cole Porter, Valentine's Day, My Funny Valentine, NPR, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Washington, D.C

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. Though best known for her own songwriting, Patricia Barber says that singing standards was once how she made a living. "When I was 23 years old, I was doing Cole Porter...

In this article: Cole Porter, Valentine's Day, My Funny Valentine, NPR, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Washington, D.C