{"id":5092,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/patricia-barber-mythologies\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"patricia-barber-mythologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=5092","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Barber &#8211; Mythologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"stories\/..\/storypix\/mythologies.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia Barber\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Patricia Barber<\/strong><\/font>  <br \/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\"><strong>Mythologies <\/strong><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\"><br \/>(Blue Note &#8211; 2006)<br \/> by Matthew Robinson<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  As soon as the &#8220;play&#8221; button is pushed, you can tell that this album is something special. After all, what other jazz artist has ever won a Guggenheim Fellowship and used it to put elements of Ovid&#8217;s Metamorphosis to music?  <\/p>\n<p>  From the haunting shades of &#8220;The Moon&#8221; and the romantic reflections of &#8220;Narcissus&#8221; to the meandering animalistic rap of &#8220;Phaethon,&#8221; Mythologies offers a diverse array of musical explanations of the unexplained. &#8220;Hunger&#8221; is a succulent and seductively skronky social commentary and &#8220;Whiteworld\/Oedipus&#8221; (perhaps the high point of the album) is a multi-hued groove through colonialistic patricide. In &#8220;Icarus,&#8221; Barber combines ancient heroes with contemporary ones by paying tribute to modern-day iconoclastic flyer Nina Simone through this tale of waxed wings and prideful strivings. Though some of Barber&#8217;s band members appear to be caught in rehearsal mode at times, the unpredictable riffs keep ears riveted and minds firing, working to figure out the links between Barber&#8217;s studied words and her smoothly angular arrangements.     <\/font>  <font size=\"1\">\u00a92006 M. S. Robinson, ARR <\/font>      <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Barber Mythologies (Blue Note &#8211; 2006) by Matthew Robinson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}