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Monday Night Live At The Green Mill Volume 3

x.mp3 1. In Your Own Sweet Way (8:07) x.mp3 2. Romanesque (4:49) x.mp3 3. Fotografia (5:09) x.mp3 4. Crash (8:50) x.mp3 5. I Could Have Danced All Night (4:58) x.mp3 6. The Thrill Is Gone (4:19) x.mp3 7. Moon River (4:13) x.mp3 8. You Gotta Go Home (5:07) x.mp3 9. Stay With Me (6:31) x.mp3 10. Orpheus (Sonnet) (4;32) x.mp3 11. Groovin' High * total time: (61:08) Digital Only Release #003 In The Series Recorded Live in Chicago, IL February 2016 BUY DOWNLOAD I have been blessed to have a weekly Monday Night gig at The Green Mill, one of the hippest jazz clubs in the world in one of the most exciting cities in the world, Chicago. enormous thanks to Dave Jemilo for keeping this Chicago treasure alive and for letting me a part of it. Also, thanks to our soundman here Chris Grabowski who increasingly is recognized for his very special "live" sound recordings. On this, the third "Live from the Green Mill " download, you'll hear not only the music, but the soft landscape of the club and the city. Larry Kohut is on acoustic bass, Jon Deitemyer is on drums and Jim Gailloreto is on tenor saxophone. The recording is exceptional. I suggest you get one of the better sound file downloads, close your eyes and time travel to this Monday Night at the Green Mill. MP3 files are encoded at 320 kbps (near-CD quality) FLAC and ALAC (Apple Lossless) files are 16 bit stereo 44.1 kHz FLAC HD and ALAC HD (Apple Lossless) files are 24 bit stereo 96 KHz Patricia Barber - piano, vocals Jim Gailloreto - sax Larry Kohut - bass John Deitemyer - drums *Tom Hipskind - drums Tracks 1,4,7 recorded February 8th, 2016 Tracks 2,3,5,8,9,10,11 recorded February 1st, 2016 Track 6 recorded February 15th, 2016 Engineer: Chris Grabowski Photograph: Valerie Booth O. Cover Art: Mare Earley Post-production: Dave Schwartz for Fast Atmosphere Released: 2016

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:20:00+00:00

Smash Lyrics

Split seconds can carry quite a surprise Diffuse white matter will close my eyes Thus brutalized I will sleep as if I were dreaming Emergency downbeat Code Cool begins rapid sequence intubation IV squeeze and circulation thus stabilized I inspire as if I were preaching I square dance slow make love with my lips Read eyes like books read books like science I remember and fix citation to case Case to form Discombobulation and I can cook up a storm Im Michelangelo's David tested and worn Distal extremity return my new shoes are wide They are smooth light brown fat soles and ties Thus mobilized And I walk as if I were dancing I will speak as if I were teaching I will live as if I were loving I have loved you a thousand times Cared not a whit you were not mine The wise men say I dove too deep But fools can swim and breathe in sleep Under the blue, under the air Magicians we can conjure where The slightest sigh above the floor Is like a scream we do bear more Interest to cease Desire within split seconds of a pause so thin This shooting breathes like molten glass And so we blow it is our task To tender well the shyest need The silent prayer as thought were deed

pbadmin2025-11-20T03:19:08+00:00

Smash

BUY CD Produced by Patricia Barber (Concord Records - 2013) On Smash, her January 22, 2013 debut on Concord Jazz, Patricia Barber reiterates her unique position in modern music as a jazz triple-threat – imaginative pianist, startling vocalist, and innovative composer (international release dates may vary). With a new band and a dozen new compositions, she also continues her two-decade crusade to retrieve the ground that jazz musicians long ago ceded to pop and rock: the realm of the intelligent and committed singer-songwriter, tackling even familiar subjects (like love and loss) with a nuance and depth beyond the limits of the Great American Songbook. Once again – in the crisp chill of her vocals, as well as the fiery feminine intellect that informs her music and lyrics – Barber makes most of her contemporaries sound like little girls. A prime example is the title track, where Barber paints the end of a love affair with subtly stated allusions to destruction: the erosion of edifices; a bloody road accident. The lines are more akin to poetry than conventional song lyrics, as she depicts "the crumbling of tall castles built / on kisses and blood / and dreams so like sand." The song's reprise compares "the sound of a heart breaking" to "the sound of / the red on the road" – a devastatingly effective mélange of synesthetic imagery. Aided by a raw, forceful guitar solo, the performance illuminates a counter-intuitive realization about loss: "It just struck me, as it does everyone who experiences great loss, that on the outside, no one can tell," Barber explains. "You go to the grocery store, and everything's the same, which is shocking. It struck me that this is the sound of a heart breaking: silence. You're alone. And I felt that this was an interesting juxtaposition, since the sound of a heart breaking should be the loudest, screamiest, shriekiest combination of sounds there could be." Barber has another song on the subject of "loud, shrieky" emotion: "Scream," paradoxically set to a gentle, quiet melody that belies its message, and which has proved extremely popular with those audiences hearing it prior to this recording. "Scream / when Sunday / finally comes / and God / isn't there . . . . the soldier / has his gun / and the war / isn't where / we thought it would be." As Barber points out in conversation, with only the slightest sarcasm, "It's an angry song – and everyone wants that." Her anger finds a more whimsical (but no less impactful) outlet in the catchy "Devil's Food," written specifically from Barber's perspective as a gay woman: "boy meets boy / girl meets girl / given any chance / to fall in love / they do . . . / like loves like / like devil's food / like chocolate twice / I'm in the mood / for you . . . ." She wrote the song in reaction to [...]

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:20:19+00:00

Patricia Barber & Kenny Werner – Live In Concert

TRACK LISTING: 01. Bumper To Bumper 02. Triste 03. The Storyteller 04. Milestones 05. Touch of Trash 06. I Had A King 07. The Swim 08. Being With You 09. Company 10. Snow 11. The Moon 12. If I Were Blue BUY DVD Patricia Barber - piano & vocals Kenny Werner - piano On November 13, 2010, Kenny Werner and I played a two piano concert for a thousand people at a resplendent Pick-Staiger Auditorium, sponsored and recorded by the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. As I walked onto the stage and sat down at my piano, face to face, keyboard to keyboard, with Kenny at his piano, I felt I had walked into a dream. From beginning to end, this musical evening was endowed with an other worldly grace. We both felt the tingle for hours after the last encore. I am thrilled to be able to present this concert in its entirety. - Patricia Barber (February 20, 2011) All Songs By Patricia Barber © Patsy Publishing BMI except 2 (Antonio Carlos Jobim), 4 (Miles Davis), 6 (Joni Mitchell) and 8 (Smokey Robinson). Photography by Valerie Booth O Musical Assistant: Andrea Amos Hair, makeup: Teresa Sullinger Design and video editing: Andrea Amos (Floyd Records - 2011) Released: 2011

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:21:02+00:00

Monday Night Live At The Green Mill Volume 2

x.mp3 1. Triste (10:00) x.mp3 2. Like JT (11:47) x.mp3 3. I Fall In Love Too Easily (4:43) x.mp3 4. Blue Bossa (12:58) x.mp3 5. On The Road Again (9:34) x.mp3 6. Post Modern Blues (7:24) 7. Smile (5:45) 8. The Beat Goes On (5:50) 9. Summertime (6:23) total time: (74:21) BUY DOWNLOAD #002 In The Series Recorded live in Chicago, IL July 12th and 19th, 2010 Patricia Barber - piano/vocals Neal Alger - guitar Larry Kohut - bass Eric Montzka - drums Engineer: Chris Grabowski Photographs: Valerie Booth O. Post-production: Fast Atmosphere Here is the download some of my fans have been waiting for, the softer side of the repertoire. That summer our Quartet, Neal Alger on guitar, Eric Montzka on drums, Larry Kohut on bass, was finding its sound and place within the wider world. From the stage at The Green Mill, Lawrence and Broadway-- I hope you like the music as much as I do. Love, Patricia Barber Released: 2011

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:21:23+00:00

Monday Night Recorded Live At The Green Mill

#001 In The Series Recorded Live in Chicago, IL February 20, 2006 x.mp3 1. Touch of Trash (7:52) x.mp3 2. The Moon (7:06) x.mp3 3. Narcissus (4:07) x.mp3 4. Company (9:25) x.mp3 5. Groovin' High (17:22) 6. Autumn Leaves (4:07) Total time: (50:00) BUY DOWNLOAD Patricia Barber - piano/vocals Neal Alger - guitar Michael Arnopol - bass Eric Montzka - drums Jim Gailloreto - saxophone Engineer: Chris Grabowski Cover/Photo: Patricia Barber Post-production: Fast Atmosphere Jim Gailloreto is one of the only musicians I can add comfortably to the quartet. In this set you can hear how he makes us sound 'better.' Jim and I are working together (I have written two tunes) on his project, "American Complex" with string quartet, saxophone and voice due out in the fall. This is the first of many "live" downloads that will appear on this site from the past, present and future. Enjoy, Patricia Released: 2009

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:21:43+00:00

The Cole Porter Mix Lyrics

You'd be so easy to love So easy to idolize, all others above So worth the yearning for So worth keeping the home fires burning for We'd be so grand at the game So carefree together that it's It does seem a shame That you can't see your future with me 'Cause you'd be oh so easy to love We'd be so grand at the game So carefree together that It does seem a shame That you can't see your future with me 'Cause you'd be oh so easy to love They say that I don't know love I say, yes, I do They say they are counting Love I say, I am too They mark the years with rings Like a tree, they say I count on smaller things Minutes, seconds, days… __ I wait for late afternoon and you The industrious bunch Through breakfast and lunch Parlay a hedge fun hunge Or two I wait for late afternoon and you The Monday sun softly pales By two Though the bulk of the clerks Thinking diligence works For pension and perks outdo I wait for late afternoon and you If we agree to meet at three The concierge and I will see The shades are drawn The staff is skilled Our lunch prepared The champagne chilled And if we skip the duck confit Your arms and lips will reach For me These walls were meant Never to speak Of souls content Within the week So on this late afternoon With you Other salesmen reserve All the rumors they've heard That this fool may deserve a A review And still I wait and I wait for you I wait for late afternoon an I get no kick from champagne Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all So tell me why should it be true I get a kick out of you? I get no kick from cocaine I'm sure if I took even one sniff It would bore me terrificly too But I get a kick out of you I get a kick every time I see you Standing there before me I get a kick though it's clear to me You obviously don't adore me I get no kick in a plane Flying too high with some guy in the sky Is my idea of nothing to do But I get a kick out of you I get a kick every time I see you Standing there before me I get a kick though it's clear to me You obviously don't adore me I get no kick in a plane Flying too high with some guy in the sky Is my idea of nothing to do But I get a kick out of you At words poetic I'm so pathetic That I always have found it best Instead of getting it off my chest To let 'em rest unexpressed I hate parading my serenading As I'll probably miss a bar But if this ditty is [...]

pbadmin2025-11-20T02:27:38+00:00

Cole Porter Mix

SOLD OUT Patricia Barber - piano, vocals, melodica (all tracks) Chris Potter - tenor saxophone (3,5,7,10,13) Neal Alger - acoustic guitar, electric guitar (all tracks) Michael Arnopol - bass (1-11, 13) Eric Montzka - drums, percussion (2-10, 13) Nate Smith - drums, percussion (1,11,12) All songs written by Cole Porter except tracks 2, 6, 13 by Patricia Barber Produced by Patricia Barber (Blue Note Records - 2008) Released: 2008

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:22:03+00:00

The Premonition Years Lyrics

the perfect shade of lipstick a red that belies insouciance carefully weaved into a style eyeliner drawn with an artisan's hand replication makes perfection she's just a button short of trash matching toes and fingers the peek-a-boo shoe manipulation as subtle as the perfume a South Beach tan under a sun-streaked do orchestration and precision the girl works harder than you primitive inspiration packaged in modern disguise disposition permitting a glimpse of the thigh masculine resolve with a feminine plan domination and submission she smells the gas then lights the match stylish deliberation the chattel of Calvin Klein obsession calculation of color and design glamour defined by supply and demand education and graduation she's just a culture short of class a moment of indecision cool wind from the edge of the cliff intoxication feels like love when it looks like this if Truth is the price for a superficial charm the night is laughing watching us turn absolutely nothing into form the season changed and the sky turned gray without the sun there is no night, or day the hours stack like sand in a glass i suppose i should sleep till spring like the grass but there's reason to believe that spring won't arrive there's reason to fear that when you left, I died when i look in the mirror, my face is too white when i check for a pulse, i'm afraid of the quiet definition is blurred by the shadows of white movement is stalled by the absence of light i can't bear the cold without the heat of my blood i can't find my heart without the warmth of your love If i start to cry the tears freeze on my face If i start to smile my skin cracks in place if i start to scream the snow buries the sound i slip on the ice that covers the ground like a snowman, with arms open wide i'll remember the spring i'll remember the light i'm petrified, like stone in the cold but i'll wait forever, frozen, and alone if i were blue like David Hockney’s pool dive into me and glide under a California sky inside your mouth and nose and eyes am I if i were blue like Edward Hopper’s afternoon lift the sash to air the breeze left my summer flush your cheek lie supine beneath the soft and gentle season would that this were that this is more like black dark as darkest indigo sickly sweet and ripe like nothing smothering light bring on the pelting rain palpable sensual pain like Goya in his studio in the thick of night absence is dull and silent if i were blue a pale Picasso blue as beauty is to sorrow let me cover you in sleep and in your melancholy i would give you peace if i were blue when i smile do my eyes scramble and scan off center as the question direct? does the corner of my [...]

pbadmin2025-11-20T02:31:32+00:00

The Premonition Years 1994 – 2002 Box Set

CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT Includes: Over 190 minutes of music featuring "Best of" tracks culled from Barber's five records for Premonition during the 1994-2002 period 5 Bonus tracks never before released on CD including "My Funny Valentine," "Fool on a Hill," "You Are My Sunshine," "So What," and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" With Barber, featured artists include Charlie Hunter, Marc Johnson, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, Adam Nussbaum, among others 3 CDs broken up into distinct listening experiences. Programs include: Patricia Barber Pop Songs, Patricia Barber Standards, Patricia Barber Originals Classic Audiophile recordings High-Resolution Re-mastering from original analog sources Extensive liner notes by noted jazz critic Neil Tesser Beautiful Slip case packaging by Steve Byram including original watercolor cover Patricia Barber, The Premonition Years: 1994-2002 chronicles Barber's 8 year association with the Chicago based indy-label Premonition Records. This was a time when Barber did her first real touring and led to her "discovery" on a worldwide stage. These years defined Barber's career in many ways gaining her the exposure and critical acclaim that solidified her place as one of the most in demand and exciting female jazz vocalists working in jazz. It was also a time when the buzz around Barber led Blue Note Records to enter into a joint imprint relationship with Premonition for the licensing rights to her releases, the first such agreement in the storied history of Blue Note Records. This expansive boxed set -- her first retrospective -- fully captures Barber's unique melange of modern pop, revered standards and inventive originals. TRACK LISTING: DISC ONE: POP SONGS 1. Ode to Billie Joe 2. The Beat Goes On 3. Use Me 4. You Don't Know Me 5. She's A Lad 6. A Taste Of Honey 7. Black Magic Woman 8. Light My Fire 9. So What (unreleased) 10. Fool On The Hill (unreleased) 11. You Are My Sunshine (unreleased) DISC TWO: STANDARDS 12. I Fall In Love Too Easily 13. Bye Bye Blackbird 14. Alfie 15. You & The Night & The Magic 16. Yesterdays 17. My Funny Valentine (unreleased) 18. Inch Worm 19. So In Love 20. The Thrill Is Gone 21. Manha De Carnava 22. A Man and A Woman 23. Invitation 24. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (unreleased) DISC THREE: ORIGINALS 25. Touch Of Trash 26. Winter 27. If I Were Blue 28. The Fire 29. Company 30. Let It Rain 31. What A Shame 32. Postmodern Blues 33. If This Isn't Jazz 34. I Could Eat Your Words 35. Pieces 36. You Gotta Go Home (Premonition Records - 2008) Released: 2007

pbadmin2025-11-10T17:35:15+00:00

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