Modern Cool

by Patricia Barber

Modern Cool cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1998
  • Label: Premonition Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:08:23
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Chicago-based jazz vocalist and pianist delivered a remarkably austere and critically revered modern jazz landmark. Praised for its pristine audiophile production, the album balances her icy, intellectual vocal delivery and sharp original songwriting with surprisingly modern, heavily rhythmic, and occasionally dissonant instrumental interplay.

Genres

Descriptors: piano, vocal, sophisticated, melodic, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Touch of Trash (5:29)
  2. Winter (4:56)
  3. You & The Night & The Music (8:06)
  4. Constantinople (8:27)
  5. Light My Fire (5:23)
  6. Silent Partner (5:09)
  7. Company (5:44)
  8. Let It Rain (5:56)
  9. She's A Lady (4:18)
  10. Love, put on your faces (5:44)
  11. Post Modern Blues (5:55)
  12. Let It Rain (Vamp) (3:14)

Credits

  • Michael Arnopol - bass
  • Mark Walker - drums, percussion
  • John McLean - guitar
  • Dave Douglas - trumpet
  • Jeff Stitely - udu
  • Schwartz & Dietz - written-by
  • Jim Morrison - written-by
  • John Densmore - written-by

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