Patricia Barber

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风格: #当代爵士　#后波普　#歌舞剧　#人声爵士
地区: 欧美

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patricia barber 她六岁学习钢琴，大学时代便开始在一些夜总会里表演。1988年，芝加哥爵土音乐节打开了她的事业之门。从此，她游历巴黎，并在纽约崭露头角，处女碟《蓝调咖啡馆》一出，立刻红透全球。Patricia Barber自己担任制作、自己创作、自己弹奏钢琴与演唱的专辑《蓝调咖啡馆》到底得到过哪些褒奖.

被国际着名《Downbeat》杂志在1995-1997年连续推荐为最有价值的音乐人才--爵士女声

美国《Sterophile》发烧天书1996年“拼死以求”（R2D4）最佳录音效果之一。

《CD Review》杂志“十大长青女歌手”之一。

美国《Billboard》杂志1994年最佳年度爵士唱片。

《Code》杂志1994年度十大唱片之一，等等奖项。

by Stacia Proefrock

Patricia Barbers unique style and unusual voice made her an easy target for critics in the early days of her career. Her piano playing and singing, while inventive, never ventured close enough to the avant-garde to earn her artistic license, and her insistence on writing her own material and adapting songs from the pop world made her difficult to categorize. A tireless performer who refused to conform to more conventional vocal jazz idioms, she worked her way up through the Chicago jazz scene slowly, almost reluctantly, after having spent several years in Iowa attending college and performing with local groups.

The daughter of Floyd Shim Barber and a blues vocalist, she had all but rejected the idea of becoming a jazz musician, but found herself drawn to the performing world after college. When she returned to Chicago, she was trashed by the local critics, and only after winning a five-day-a-week gig at the intimate Gold Star Sardine Bar and releasing her first album on her own Floyd label (1989s Split) did the tide begin to turn for her. She signed a contract with Verve and released A Distortion of Love in 1992, which brought her some positive critical attention and earned her a more national audience, but the big-label experience was trying for Barber and she sought a place where she could have more creative control. Her next two albums were issued by the tiny local label Premonition (1994s Café Blue and 1998s Modern Cool).

Premonition was purchased by Blue Note in 1998, and the label put some marketing muscle behind Barber, helping to bolster the international reputation she had already begun to earn. Blue Note released Companion in 1999 — intended to act as her introduction to a wider audience, the album reprised much of her popular material and was recorded live at Chicagos Green Mill, a historic jazz club where Barber had been performing weekly for several years. 2000s Night Club took her back into a studio setting, but still featured many of the inventive interpretations that had distinguished her work in the past. Barber issued her edgy, critically acclaimed Verse on the Blue Note label in 2002. She won a Guggenheim in March of 2003 to create a song cycle based on Ovids Metamorphses. Her concert set Live: A Fortnight in Paris was issued on the label in 2004, consisting of five originals, five covers, and two brand new songs. Mythologies followed in 2006.

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