Jazz singer and pianist - Chicago based player - Patricia Barber performing live at the Montreal Jazz Festivals 1999 and 2001 Jazz Festivals. In her more exploring way of expressing jazz music. Patricia's inventiveness in exploring jazz can sometimes be a little heavy for jazz beginners, but for true lovers of her music. You will fall in-love with this concert. This dvd is one of her best jazz concerts ever made. Her lyrics are some of the most absorbing I have heard on record in a long time. She writes in part from experience, often metaphorically, and takes on some familiar subjects by casting an entirely new light on them. But most impressive is her sheer power of language. She puts words and phrases into songs the likes of which have rarely been heard, and at a more poetic level than some of the best folkies. She is also not without a sense of dry wit, whom she credits Mose Allison for inspiring.
From commercial pop music to jazz. Patricia sings with a certain degree of elegance and have captured the attention of jazz music fans. Her stlyle of playing the piano is more or less by definition, a singer rather than a songwriter. This is especially true in jazz, where the performance, improvisation and interpretation are the keys. Material consists of familiar great selected songs that came from her cd's between the year of 1999 and 2001. This dvd lasted an hour of pure breed jazz.
