Patricia Barber- Modern Cool UDSACD 2003

Patricia Barber - Modern Cool



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



01 Touch Of Trash

02Winter

03 You & The Night & The Music

04 Constantinople

05 Light My Fire

06 Silent Partner

07 Company

08 Let It Rain

09 She's A Lady

10 Love, Put On Your Faces

11 Postmodern Blues

12 Let It Rain

13 Vamp