Author: Barber, Patricia

Format: Import

Details: Amazon.ca 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. --Andrew Bartlett Product Description This latest offering from the Chicago born piano player, in our eyes, even surpasses the now legendary Cafe Blue (in quality and quantity!). Blasphemy? we think not... Ms. Barber returns with even bigger chops than before. An all together more musically cohesive album than Cafe Blue, Modern Cool further defines the always changing 'Cool' school of jazz. Powerful musicianship is employed tastefully and judiciously to original tunes as well as some interesting and refreshing covers; specifically: The Doors' "Light my Fire", and Paul Anka's "She's a Lady". For a touch of added timbre Patricia calls on the support of the new genius in Chicago horn-men, Dave Douglas. She even brings in the commanding presence of the Choral Thunder Vocal Choir to help propel her adaptation of E.E. Cummings poem: "Love, put on your faces". As can be expected, the sonics are what we have come to appreciate from engineer Jim Anderson: Big, Bold, and just plain outstanding! Newly remastered 24k gold collector's edition HDCD.

UPC: 766917774129

EAN: 0766917774129

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood