Verse

Singer/pianist/songwriter Patricia Barber follows up her 2000 release, the standards-only 'Nightclub', with 'Verse', a stunning new studio album comprised completely of never before recorded original songs

Patricia, daughter of Floyd 'Shim' Barber, has a unique style and an unusual voice and on this album there is respectful homage to Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Mose Allison, Rogers and Hart, Joni Mitchell, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sting and many more

Barber is in the vanguard of the new school of female jazz vocalists

A Joni Mitchell-esque breakthrough for Patricia Barber'
- LA TIMES

'(Barber's music) is the kind of art we need to be on the lookout for everywhere. The 21st century has started. We can't afford to be left behind'
- NEW YORK TIMES

'The coolest singer / songwriter around'
- LOS ANGELES TIMES