Patricia Barba December 24, 1926 – March 21, 2019 Mission Hills Patricia Barba died peacefully in her home at the age of 92. She was the wife of prominent San Diego neurosurgeon Manuel Barba, who died ...

At exactly two minutes before show time, Patricia Barber whisks into the Green Mill Jazz Club, says a quick hello to the guys on the bandstand, stretches the joints in her hands, places her iPad ...

After several years wandering the major label wilderness (mostly by choice), the one-of-a-kind Chicago singer and pianist Patricia Barber recently released Smash, her debut record on the Concord Jazz ...

Verse is Patricia Barber's seventh album since her 1989 debut, Split, on the little known and poorly distributed Floyd Records, named after her musician father, Floyd Barber. Her second album, A ...

Funny how time flies. To think that '60s pop hits are now 40 years old and entitled to be considered "standards." For my money, no one working today makes a better case for them than Patricia Barber.

Although she’s been a recording artist for over two decades, jazz pianist Patricia Barber says she wasn’t totally comfortable with her career choice until she had been doing it for years. “I’ve always ...

Poetry and music are two peas in a pod. For the past two millennia the Roman poet Ovid has inspired artists of all kinds, from poets and playwrights to filmmakers and musicians. Most recently, his ...

Patricia Barber sings with a cool, insinuating delivery, as if she's whispering in your ear over a very dry martini in a smoky dive. So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz ...

With the summer in full swing, music lovers might consider cooling things down with jazz singer Patricia Barber’s mellow cover version of Stevie Wonder’s “All in Love Is Fair.” As a standout track ...

There are songs that haunt us. It's not necessary that we have listened to them willingly; perhaps we have simply heard them on the radio, in the supermarket, at the gym, or someone close to us has ...