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Patricia Barber at City Winery - DC
Courtesy of Scott H. Thompson | Posted on October 11, 2019
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Tue, October 22, 2019
7:30 pm
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Doors open at 6:00pm
“Few performers in or out of jazz are as consistently brilliant as Patricia Barber” wrote Jazz Times. Born outside Chicago in 1955, Barber came by music naturally. Her father was Floyd “Shim” Barber, a saxophonist who played intermittently with Glenn Miller’s orchestra, her mother a blues singer. Barber’s “career has been brilliantly marked by a complete unwillingness to compromise her approach to music,” wrote All about Jazz. “She exists in that uncharted creative realm where she successfully defies classification.... These characteristics spotlight Barber's role as an innovator and catalyst for musical evolution, a musician performing from the front edge rather than the middle of the creative muse.”...