Jazz / Adult Alternative Pop/ Rock; Modern Creative; Contemporary Jazz; Ballads
The Patricia Barber Quartet (PBQ)
Patricia Barber - piano, vocals
Neal Alger - guitar
Michael Arnopol - bass
Eric Montzka - drums
With special guests:
Jim Gailloreto - (1,2,10) saxophone
Choral Thunder, directed by Shelby Webb, Jr. background vocals (10, 11)
With additional vocals by:
Paul Falk (7)
Grazyna Auguscik (11)
Lawrice Flowers (7,10)
Airreal Watkins (10)
Walter "Mitchell" Owens, III (10)
In 2003, acclaimed singer-pianist Patricia Barber became one of the few jazz musicians ever to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she took the opportunity to create one of the most ambitious and affecting works of her career. Embarking on a bold, exciting musical adventure, Barber brings her compositional sophistication to new heights with Mythologies, a song cycle based on Greek mythology where each of the 11 mythological characters in Ovid's Metamorphoses is fleshed out in music.
"Barber brilliantly has found the means to re-imagine a piece of literature for a jazz context... The expressive range of this music proves thrilling... These songs stand on their own as immensely attractive jazz pieces, apart from their source material."
Chicago Tribune
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