PATRICIA BARBER

Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag and you get Patricia Barber’ (Time Magazine). The Chicago-based vocalist and pianist combines sensual swing with intelligence and originality. In her witty, pointed songs she whispers intimacies but also barges in with earthly stories of one night stands or she personifies herself with the characters from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. ‘The most fearless, most intellectually stimulating and, by extension, most interesting singer-songwriter-pianist on the American jazz scene’ (Jazz Times).