Patricia Barber

vocals, piano · 1955 · Chicago

American singer, pianist and composer born in Chicago in 1955, the daughter of a saxophonist who played with Bud Freeman and Glenn Miller. After studying piano at the University of Iowa, she settled in Chicago, where she plays regularly in clubs, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in composition in 2003.

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Styles

• Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese
• Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide)

Landmark tracks

• Mourning Grace (1994)
• Yellow Car III (1994)
• Inch Worm (1994)
• Too Rich for My Blood (1994)

Sources

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