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My Favorite Albums: 1998
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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
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Release date: 19 September 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724352181124 UPC: 724352181124
Release date: 19 September 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724352181124 UPC: 724352181124
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My Favorite Albums: 1998 (14 music items)