Does anyone want to get together to go see Patricia Barber at Yoshi's in Oakland on January 8, 9 or 10th (Tues, Wed, or Thurs)? I'm going for sure on one of those days.
Here's a mini-bio of Patricia (who is a favorite of Les Irvin's) with the requisite Joni content: "Critics have always had a tough time pinning down the musical style of pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber. From Chicago and a mainstay at the Green Mill, Barber has become a major force in jazz and music. This, after five CDs in which she pushed the limits as an improviser, singer, and songwriter. Barber matches wit and emotional revelation with inventive playing and delicate conversational phrasing. She can conjure Joni Mitchell as well as the likes of jazz hipsters like Bob Dorough, Mose Allison, and Dave Frishberg. Her latest release is a standards album on Blue Note, Nightclub, a moving document of her unique transformations of jazz standards. Her witty re-inventions of unlikely pop tunes are also unique and refreshing. As a performer and a songwriter, Barber continually grapples with contradiction, achieving complex balances between aloofness and intimacy, deep feeling and sheer fun. She is riveting as a pianist, pushing herself and her band members to produce stunning i! mprovisations. Her singing can con vey both cool detachment and frank vulnerability." -Julius
