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1 The Moon  
2 Morpheus  
3 Pygmalion  
4 Hunger  
5 Icarus (for Nina Simone)  
6 Orpheus/Sonnet  
7 Persephone  
8 Narcissus  
9 Whiteworld/Oedipus  
10 Phaethon  
11 The Hours  
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With words, and piano, Patricia Barber brings us her ninth CD: Mythologies, an intelligent album based on: The Metamorphoses of Ovid, the centuries-old classic of Western literature, filled with gods, mortals and apparently, humor. Barber's songwriting has been attracting big attention lately, and for the last two years, she has been recording this eleven song cycle. It was a project that demanded focus and some self-education

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  • Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz chat with Butler County Radio
    Posted At: January 17, 2022 12:00 AM
    Married couple and partners in the world of engineering and recorded music, and principles at Anderson Audio, Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz interview with 107.5/680AM WISR Radio in Butler County PA's Tracy Morgan. Jim and Ulrike discuss their history, including Jim's radio hosting on WISR, the couple's storied career, and the GRAMMY's, an award they have won multiple times, the most recent of which is for...
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  • GOLDMINE present 'Fabulous Flip Sides of Stevie Wonder with Patricia Barber'
    Posted At: September 5, 2021 12:00 AM

    Jazz singer and pianist Patricia Barber and vocalist Chris Ruggiero include classic Stevie Wonder songs on their new albums Patricia Barber, the performer known for boldly blurring the lines between poetry, jazz, and art song, has announced the forthcoming release of a new all-standards album Clique (Impex Records), due out August 6th in breathtaking hi-fi. The long-awaited successor to Nightclub, he...
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  • Patricia Barber chats about 'Clique' with Harmonious World Podcast
    Posted At: August 31, 2021 12:00 AM

    Patricia Barber, the performer known for boldly blurring the lines between poetry, jazz, and art song, has recently released her new all-standards album Clique (Impex Records), in breathtaking hi-fi. The long-awaited successor to Nightclub, her critically acclaimed and fan-favorite first all-standards album, Clique features a tracklist of tunes that Barber has frequently performed as encores th...
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  • Patricia Barber chats with Jazz Variations
    Posted At: August 31, 2021 12:00 AM

    Patricia Barber, the performer known for boldly blurring the lines between poetry, jazz, and art song, has released a new all-standards album Clique (Impex Records) in breathtaking hi-fi. The long-awaited successor to Nightclub, her critically acclaimed and fan-favorite first all-standards album, Clique features a tracklist of tunes that Barber has frequently performed as encores throughout her illustrio...
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  • 'Clique' arrives as a reminder of all that was special about listening to Patricia Barber's music
    Posted At: August 28, 2021 12:00 AM

    off the tracks - Simon Sweetman writes....Vocalist and pianist Patricia Barber has both honeyed-warmth and icy-cool in her voice. It's ageless too. And some two decades on from her last set of standards, Clique arrives as a reminder of all that was special about listening to her music – discovering it in the last 90s and loving it through the early 00s. It's straight ahead jazz and cabaret merged a...
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  • On 'Clique' Patricia Barber travels from 'emoting brooding feelings to soaring on heavenly wings' / jazz2love
    Posted At: August 26, 2021 12:00 AM

    jazz2love writes.....Pianist-vocalist-composer Patricia Barber emerges with her latest CD Clique, a bluesy smooth jazz endeavor groomed in smokey, cabaret-esque atmospherics.  Barber creates an intimacy with her audience that projects a personalized listening experience.  Produced by Barber and Jim Anderson, the release has a mix of jazz standards and a single original number written by Barber....
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  • posi +ive feedback jumps at the chance to interview Patricia Barber
    Posted At: August 25, 2021 12:00 AM

    I wasn't raised from birth to be a jazz-hound; that came about as a happy accident of Reaganomics, where I suddenly found myself out of a job, and ended up working again in 1990 in the commercial print industry. Where I spent the next seven years in a 1940's era bunker of a building that had virtually zero radio reception; wearing a personal portable wasn't an option, so I was limited to the ...
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  • Patricia Barber discusses 'Clique' with 90.1WFUV: CAVALCADE
    Posted At: August 16, 2021 12:00 AM

    WFUV's Paul Cavalconte writes "Cavalcade" welcomes Patricia Barber at 8:30 p.m. for conversation and selections from her new album of trusted encores, Clique. Patricia offers Clique as a follow up to her heralded Modern Cool, and Nightclub Standards projects and as a sidebar to her most recent album of original songs, Higher. Building tension and suspense in her crafty use of time and silence mak...
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  • Straight No Chaser podcast in conversation with Patricia Barber
    Posted At: August 13, 2021 12:00 AM

    "The harmonic language of jazz, as well as that of the Great American Songbook, is certainly rich -- look how much has come out of it -- but it's circumscribed. I started wanting to hear something else" – Patricia Barber Straight No Chaser's Jeffrey Siegel writes.....Singer/Pianist/Composer Patricia Barber has found success mixing cutting edge projects like her 2019 release Higher, which fe...
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  • Pristinely recorded, Patricia Barber's 'Clique' assembles what began as live encores, into an experience all its own / All About Jazz
    Posted At: August 13, 2021 12:00 AM

    All About Jazz - Tyran Grillo writes.....These time-honored songs, lovingly curated, arranged, and performed by pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber and her band, are at last seeing the light of day when the world needs them more than ever. Pristinely recorded, Clique assembles what began as encores to live performances into an experience all its own. The album comes out of the same sessions that gave us Hig...
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  • Patricia Barber's 'Clique' is a masterclass in reinventing standards / 90.1WRTI: Jazz Album of the Week
    Posted At: August 9, 2021 12:00 AM

    90.1WRTI's MATT SILVER writes.......When you listen to a Patricia Barber album, you are listening to a jazz album, but that's not all you are listening to. Clique, just Barber's second release since 2013's Smash and her first album of standards since 2000's Nightclub, showcases Barber's fluency within a vast breadth of motifs.   And yet, what Barber does is  much...
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  • CMU: The Beat interviews Patricia Barber
    Posted At: August 7, 2021 12:00 AM

    Patricia Barber, the performer known for boldly blurring the lines between poetry, jazz, and art song, has announced the forthcoming release of a new all-standards album Clique (Impex Records), in breathtaking hi-fi. The long-awaited successor to Nightclub, her critically acclaimed and fan-favorite first all-standards album, Clique features a tracklist of tunes that Barber has frequently perfor...
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  • Patricia Barber returns to the standards format on 'Clique' / Jazziz: New Release Cheat Sheet
    Posted At: August 6, 2021 12:00 AM

    Jazziz - MATT MICUCCI writes....If you're looking for some great new music to discover this weekend, look no further than our weekly New Release Cheat Sheet. With Clique, pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber returns to the standards-album format for the first time since 2000's Nightclub. The record finds her revisiting standards and well-known songs that she has frequently performed as encores, including...
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  • Patricia Barber's 'Clique' is marlbank 'ALBUM OF THE WEEK'
    Posted At: August 6, 2021 12:00 AM

    marlbank writes.....A big achievement from the singer and pianist Patricia Barber, Clique makes these standards more relevant than ever and mean something significant in an array of possibilities through these renditions. Read more about the release here and here and … A big achievement from the singer and pianist Patricia Barber, Clique makes these standards more relevant than ever and mean s...
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  • Patricia Barber's 'Clique' is daring, rhythmic, warming, exciting, and immediately accessible / StageandCinema
    Posted At: August 4, 2021 12:00 AM

    Stage and Cinema's TONY FRANKEL writes....Flying by at 45 minutes, Patricia Barber's new album is everything I want when a great vocalist rethinks songs that have been covered over and over. Daring, rhythmic, warming, exciting, and immediately accessible, Clique (Impex Records August 6) has Barber completely reinventing a tracklist of tunes, including classics by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stevie Won...
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  • simplifi interviews Patricia Barber, Jim Anderson, and Ulrike Schwarz
    Posted At: August 1, 2021 12:00 AM

    simplifi's Gordon Brockhouse writes.....We're just past the halfway point of 2021, but I think I've already heard my favorite album of the year. On August 6, Impex Records will release Clique, an album of jazz standards by Patricia Barber, on MQA CD, SACD, and hi-rez download. Stereo and 5.1 surround-sound mixes will be included on the SACD, and available as hi-rez downloads. Clique will also be stre...
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  • Patricia Barber discusses 'Clique' and career on 90.7WGXC's Jazz Disturbance - Situation Fluxus
    Posted At: July 15, 2021 12:00 AM

    In the broadcast, a music segment and an interview with pianist and vocalist Patricia Barber. Her new release on Impex Records is "Clique." The album includes nine standards that Barber has performed as encores during her career like All in Love is Fair by Stevie Wonder, Straight No Chaser by Monk, I Could Have Danced All Night by Lerner and Loewe, and more. Si...
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  • Hear Patricia Barber reinvent Frank Sinatra hit, 'This Town' on first taste from 'Clique' / 88.3WBGO
    Posted At: June 21, 2021 12:00 AM

    WBGO's Keanna Faircloth writes.....Patricia Barber's new album, 'Clique,' puts a new twist on the standard repertory. Patricia Barber breathes new life into her latest single, "This Town" - the 1967 song made popular by Frank Sinatra. Her tender approach to the lyrics of this Lee Hazelwood hit comes juxtaposed with the fiery edge of her piano playing, in signature Barber fashion. Her ...
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  • Chicago Jazz Magazine presents November feature with Patricia Barber
    Posted At: November 1, 2018 12:00 AM

    Chicago Jazz Magazine founder, Mike Jeffers, talks with Patricia Barber about her early years growing up in Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska, studying phycology in college and then following her passion for music and moving back to Chicago to start her career.    The discussion leads to her years at the famed Gold Star Sardine Bar in Chicago where she performed 6 nights a week to a packed house w...
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  • Patricia Barber trio returns to Milwaukee / WUWM Radio
    Posted At: November 11, 2016 12:00 AM

    A concert by jazz pianist, singer, and composer Patricia Barber is a rare thing these days in Milwaukee. Although Barber lives pretty near by, the Chicago-based musician carefully picks and chooses her tour stops, and will make a special appearance with the trio at the Back Room at Colectivo this Saturday.  In much of her most recent work, Barber adds some eclectic subject matter – adding...
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  • Patricia Barber explores the mystical power of song / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: September 28, 2016 12:00 AM

    In recent years, the inimitable Chicago pianist-singer-songwriter Patricia Barber has become fascinated with vocalists. Those other than herself, that is. Last December she collaborated with opera star Renee Fleming in an evening of Barber's music and holiday fare at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance (they went on to take the program to the Kennedy Center, in Washington, and National S...
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  • Patricia Barber & Renee Fleming play The Kennedy Center / DC Metro Theater Arts review
    Posted At: December 17, 2015 12:00 AM

    Musicians are not meant to be confined to one facet of their craft. Renée Fleming, one of the foremost voices in opera today, is not shy about her love for jazz and the mastery that goes into the highly improvisational form. In discovering Patricia Barber, she found a jazz songwriter and singer who, as it turns out, has an incredibly high regard for the operatic style. In their one night only...
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  • Chicago's Barber | Fleming, 'Higher' concert will air LIVE on Classical WFMT / Windy City Times
    Posted At: December 11, 2015 12:00 AM

    The world premiere of "Higher: Renee Fleming and Patricia Barber Perform the Music of Patricia Barber" on December 14at 7:30PM is nearly sold out. A top holiday pick from the likes of Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Crain's Chicago Business, and many others, this one-night-only engagement can be heard a second time exclusively on WFMT at 8PM on Monday, December 21, as Renee Fleming and Patricia Ba...
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  • Crossover Artists - Patricia Barber & Renee Fleming, perform Barber's work in - 'Higher' / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: December 9, 2015 12:00 AM

    Chicago jazz singer-pianist Patricia Barber never will forget the first time soprano Renee Fleming stepped into the Green Mill Jazz Club to hear her, a few years ago. Barber knew full well that Fleming ranks among the world's most admired sopranos, a marquee performer at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and houses far beyond. "I was so nervous," recalls Barber. "I can't ...
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  • Patricia Barber full of energy@Montreal Jazz Festival / The Telegraph
    Posted At: July 8, 2015 12:00 AM

    Patricia Barber's sense of the bittersweet is almost certainly unrivalled, and her ironic, caustic way of winning over a gentle-mannered, short-sleeved Montreal Jazz Festival audience on a balmy July night may well be unique. Among the treats which the jazz singer, pianist and songwriter had brought north from Chicago was a desolate song which certainly has resonances in Quebec, en...
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  • Patricia Barber hosts WDCB's new three-part series - MusicHeads
    Posted At: January 16, 2015 12:00 AM

    Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Patricia Barber hosts WDCB: Glen Ellyn IL new three-part series  "MusicHeads," recorded in the acoustically pristine PianoForte Studios in downtown Chicago. The show airs Wednesday nights, from 9 – 10 pm. In the first show which aired on January 14, 2105, Barber explored the question "What is Swing? It also looks at what is meant when one says "music ...
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  • Patricia Barber is an out and proud / She Wired feature
    Posted At: August 10, 2014 12:00 AM

    Who she is: One of the most acclaimed performers and composers in contemporary jazz, and an out and proud lesbian in what she once called "a hetero scene." What she's accomplished: Pianist, singer, and composer Patricia Barber has been thrilling audiences for more than 30 years. She's recorded over a dozen albums and toured internationally, while, when she's not on the road, maintaining a s...
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  • Patricia Barber marks Contempo's 10th anniversary@University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts
    Posted At: April 23, 2014 12:00 AM

    Ten years ago, the University of Chicago's Contemporary Chamber Players took on a sleek new name – Contempo – and for the first time in its 40-year history presented jazz on an even footing with classical music. The inimitable Chicago singer-pianist Patricia Barber was to have been the first jazz musician to perform on Contempo's new cross-genre venture, but she wasn't available. ...
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  • On: 'Mythologies,' Patricia Barber delivers intelligence and insouciance
    Posted At: August 15, 2006 12:00 AM

    With voice, words, and piano, Patricia Barber delivers intelligence and insouciance. She is a singular jazz singer and pianist, but for the last few years it is her songwriting that has been attracting big attention. In concert, she confides by whispering a song of sweet nothings into the listener's ear, then surprises with a rock-edged and trashy song about a one-night stand. She comes across m...
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