Patricia Barber

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Patricia Barber

| image = Patricia Barber Nasjonal Jazzscene 2017 (212649).jpg

| background = solo_singer

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|11|08|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Songwriter, jazz singer, pianist, composer

| instrument = Voice, piano

| years_active = 1989-present

| label = ArtistShare, Blue Note, Premonition, Concord, Impex, Floyd, Antilles

| website = {{URL|https://www.patriciabarber.com/| Official site}}

}}

Patricia Barber (born November 8, 1955) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and pianist.

Biography

Barber's father Floyd was a jazz saxophonist who played with Bud Freeman and Glenn Miller.{{cite book |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide |date=2008 |publisher=Backbeat |isbn=978-0-87930-825-4 |page=109 |oclc=767843314 |lccn= 2008039171 |ol=OL8128605M}} She played saxophone and piano from a young age, sang in musicals in high school, and studied piano at the University of Iowa in the early 1970s. From there Barber went to Chicago and began performing regularly in bars and clubs. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in March 2003, an unusual accomplishment for someone working in the field of popular songwriting.{{cite web |title=Barber Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship |url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/barber-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship |website=Downbeat |date=April 28, 2003 |publisher=Maher Publications |access-date=12 December 2021}} The Guggenheim allowed her to devote time to a song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. She is married to musicologist Martha Feldman.{{Cite journal |last=Velez |first=Andrew |date=7 November 2000 |title=Totally Jazzed |journal=The Advocate |pages=81–82}}

Awards and honors

She was given a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 in the field of Creative Arts – Music Composition.{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/738-patricia-barber |title=Barber Awarded Fellowship by Guggenheim Foundation in 2003|publisher=gf.org|accessdate=2010-11-22|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530183229/http://www.gf.org/fellows/738-patricia-barber |archivedate=May 30, 2011|df=mdy-all}}
She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx|title=2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election |website=members.amacad.org|access-date=2020-03-03}}

Discography

An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year recorded

!Title

!Label

!Personnel/Notes

1989*

|Split

|Floyd

|Trio, with Michael Arnopol (bass), Mark Walker (drums)

1991

|A Distortion of Love

|Antilles

|With Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Marc Johnson (bass), Adam Nussbaum (drums, percussion, finger snaps), Carla White and Big Kahuna (finger snaps)

1994

|Café Blue

|Premonition

|With John McLean (guitar), Michael Arnopol (bass), Mark Walker (drums, percussion)

1998

|Modern Cool

|Premonition

|With John McLean (guitar), Michael Arnopol (bass), Mark Walker (drums, percussion), Dave Douglas (trumpet), Jeff Stitely (udu), Choral Thunder Vocal Choir

1999

|Companion

|Premonition

|With John McLean (guitar), Michael Arnopol (bass), Eric Montzka (drums, percussion), Ruben P. Alvarez (percussion); Jason Narducy (vocals) added on one track

2000*

|Nightclub

|Premonition/Blue Note

|With Marc Johnson and Michael Arnopol (bass; separately), Adam Nussbaum and Adam Cruz (drums; separately), Charlie Hunter (guitar)

2002*

|Verse

|Premonition/Blue Note

|Most tracks quartet, with Dave Douglas (trumpet), Neal Alger (guitar), Michael Arnopol (bass), Joey Baron (drums); one track quartet with Eric Montzka (drums) replacing Baron; one track with Cliff Colnot String Ensemble added

2004*

|Live: A Fortnight in France

|Blue Note

|Quartet, with Neal Alger (guitar), Michael Arnapol (bass), Eric Montzka (drums)

2006*

|Mythologies

|Blue Note

|Most tracks quartet, with Neal Alger (guitar), Michael Arnapol (bass), Eric Montzka (drums); some tracks with Jim Gailloreto (sax) added; some tracks with various vocalists added

2008*

|The Cole Porter Mix

|Blue Note

|Most tracks quartet, with Neal Alger (guitar), Michael Arnopol (bass), Eric Montzka (drums, percussion); some tracks quintet, with Chris Potter (tenor sax) added; some tracks quartet with Alger (guitar), Arnopol (bass), Nate Smith (drums, percussion)

2010

|Live in Concert

|Floyd

|Duo, with Kenny Werner (piano); in concert

2013*

|Smash

|Concord Jazz

2019

|Higher

|ArtistShare

|Recording of song cycle "Angels, Birds and I…"

2021

|Clique

|Impex Records

|A product of the same recording sessions as her 2019 album Higher.

Source:{{cite web|title=Patricia Barber {{!}} Album Discography | url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/patricia-barber-mn0000010756/discography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=1 April 2017}}{{cite web|title=Patricia Barber {{!}} The Higher Project | url= https://www.artistshare.com/projects/experience/?artistID=367&projectId=507|website=ArtistShare|accessdate=18 January 2019}}

References

External links

[https://www.patriciabarber.com/ Official website]
[https://archive.org/details/casfjazz_000316 2005 concert] recorded at the SFJazz Jazz Festival
[http://www.jazzchicago.net/barber.html Review of Mythologies by JazzChicago.net]

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