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PATRICIA BARBER - MODERN COOL *SACD*

Chicago pianist and vocalist Patricia Barber is making lots of ears burn.Her torch song touch speaks volumes to jazz vocal fanatics, but she hasan adventuresome side that speaks likewise to fans of woollier jazz.Barber's vocal delivery is swaggering and burnished, always anglingagainst oddball time signatures and often dropping weird lyrical science.From e.e. cummings poems, Barber moves into prescient observationson our society: 'For company in the 21st century,' she sings, 'I go tothe club, talk through the show / I'm so hip there's nothing about jazz /That I don't know.' Trumpeter Dave Douglas and guitarist JohnMcLean add a sharp edge, and the Choral Thunder Vocal Choir giveModern Cool soul-drenched dynamics that push the CD into the realmof instant classics. (--Andrew Bartlett, Amazon)

Players:

Patricia Barber - piano, vocal, table knives on strings
Michael Arnopol - bass
John McLean - guitarMark Walker - drums, percussion,prepared drum kit
Dave Douglas - trumpet
Jeff Stitely - udu
Choral Thunder Vocal Choir

Tracks:

-Touch Of Trash
-Winter
-You & The Night & The Music
-Constantinople
-Light My Fire
-Silent Partner
-Company
-Let It Rain
-She's A Lady
-Love, Put On Your Faces
-Postmodern Blues
-Let It Rain - Vamp

Recorded and mixed atChicago Recording CompanyStudio 5, Chicago, IL onJanuary 6th-9th and February 26th,1998

Produced By Patricia Barber
Executive Producer: MichaelFriedman