PATRICIA BARBER

Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag and you get Patricia Barber’. this is how Time Magazine characterized the vocalist and pianist who combines sensual swing with intelligence and originality. In her oft witty songs with to-the-point lyrics she whispers intimacies but also barges in with earthly stories of one night stands or she personifies herself with the characters from The Metamorphosis of Ovidius. Not a middle of the road jazz vocalist, a rare phenomenon.