Label: Floyd
Jazz
Pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber's recording debut, Split, is a fairly straight-ahead affair featuring the idiosyncratic stylist on various standards and originals. Showcasing her unique approach to jazz, the album finds Barber mixing pointed and minimalist lines à la Chet Baker with a dramatic cabaret vocal style and complex harmonic post-bop passages -- a template that longtime fans will recognize. To these ends, Barber opens with a brisk Latin version of "Early Autumn," takes a dusky vocal turn on "Easy to Love," and shows her cerebral side on such originals as "Winter Illusion." Joining Barber here are bassist Michael Arnopol and drummer Mark Walker. [Originally released on Floyd Records in 1989, Koch reissued the disc in 2004.]
By Matt Collar, All Music Guide.
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Patricia Barber- Piano, Vocals
Michael Arnopol- Bass
Mark Walker- Drums
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01. Early Autumn (4:26)
02. Greys (5:33)
03. Alone Together (4:31)
04. Spy Sly (4:27)
05. Easy to Love (4:33)
06. Too Late Now (4:48)
07. Winter Illusion (5:24)
08. Retrograde (3:20)
09. Two for the Road (4:41)
10. Then I'll Be Tired of You (5:10)
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