Café Blue stands out with its daring blend of jazz standards, originals, and poetic settings—from Maya Angelou to avant-garde inspirations. Mourning Grace, for instance, sets Angelou’s haunting line “Will you have the grace to mourn for me?” against an evolving musical backdrop, culminating in Barber’s emotionally charged vocal ascent.

“Constantinople”, from 1998’s Modern Cool, is the most extreme example. Over a shifting Middle Eastern groove fueled by Mark Walker’s percussion work, Barber keens wordlessly and then gives trumpeter Dave Douglas several beautiful minutes to vamp in Sketches of Spain style; when she comes back in, long vocal lines punctuated by staccato guitar work by John McLean, it’s so haunting and perfect that you forget that she doesn’t actually play piano at all on the track.

A bold and affecting song cycle. Patricia Barber, after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, embarked on one of her most ambitious projects—Mythologies, a compelling 11-track song cycle inspired by the characters of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Each composition musically fleshes out figures from ancient myth, blending narrative depth with sophisticated compositional structure.

Modern Cool pulses with vivid character sketches of modern life—starting with "Touch of Trash," a sharp portrait of a woman “just a culture short of class.” The album unfolds in a low-lit, nocturnal jazz world, where Barber’s smoky voice and John McLean’s ethereal guitar evoke flickering streetlights and inner monologues.

Split is a newly remastered edition of Patricia Barber‘s first album originally released on Floyd Records in 1989. Koch reissued the album on Stereo CD in 2004. It has been off the market for over 20 years.
This is the first album in which we hear her first versions of standards she revisits in later albums (“Early Autumn” on “Higher”, “Easy.

When Café Blue was released by Premonition Records in 1994, two things happened. A “maverick” jazz artist began a sustained, inventive career and a significant audiophile release put the label on the map. Barber’s father, a musician with Glenn Miller, had instilled a respect for jazz arrangement. After paying her dues on the Chicago music scene, her relentless performance schedule garnered an enthusiastic cult following. It didn’t take long for critics to recognize the quirky stylistic approach to jazz. Relying on original material and a mix of pop standards, Barber created albums of musical vision and poetic flair.

A Distortion of Love from 1992 showcases Patricia Barber the consummate jazz pianist as well as the chanteuse with the husky voice which has become her trademark of late. There are some very interesting purely instrumental tracks on this album, especially the hard driving McCoy Tyner-ish "Subway Station No. 5," the impressionistic "Parts Parallels," and "Yet Another in a Long Series of Yellow Car" which has a Joe Zawinul/Weather Report feel to it.

Unorthodox Jukebox is the second studio album by American recording artist Bruno Mars. It was released by Atlantic Records on December 7, 2012, as the follow-up to Mars' 2010 debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The album was initially planned to be more "energetic" than his previous material; Unorthodox Jukebox ultimately presented a wide range of styles, such as reggae rock, disco and soul music. The singer co-wrote the whole album and worked with several past collaborators, while enlisting new producers and guest vocals. Much of Unorthodox Jukebox revolves around the theme of relationships, with more explicit lyrics and subjects than his previous material. Critical response to Unorthodox Jukebox was generally favorable; many reviewers compared the work to that of his previous album, while others deemed the lyrical content as shallow and lacking of depth.

18 ноября 2016 года вышел третий студийный альбом американского певца и композитора Bruno Mars. Это первый за 4 года студийный альбом певца. Лид-сингл "24K Magic" (twenty-four karat magic) выпущен 6 октября 2016 года. О работе над этим альбомом заявлено еще в 2014 году после окончания тура Moonshine Jungle Tour. По мнению журнала "Rolling Stone" альбом стал одним из 20 самых ожидаемых дисков 2016 года. Песни «24K Magic» и «Chunky» были представлены 15 октября 2016 года на ТВ-шоу Saturday Night Live. 20 ноября синглом "24K Magic" Bruno Mars открыл церемонию American Music Awards.

The Swedish group Degreed on its forthcoming album other cooperated with anybody, as singer Bill Chemplin Chikago. "We are proud to declare that we have a function with the Grammy awards and sale Multi Platinum singer Bill Chemplin (the former Chicago) on an album! ! It also a co-authorship the song which it appears also one more album with Eric Lidbom.

в 1991 году удалось сотворить незабываемый шедевр brutal death metal - "Butchered At Birth". Это их первый альбом, который мне посчастливилось услышать. Бешеная скорость, ультра-низкая настройка гитар, барабанные дроби Мазуркевича и этот незабываемый тромбопробулькивающий гроулинг Бэрнса - просто повергли меня в шок, в хорошем смысле этого слова. Просто улет! Недаром Крис является одним из лучших вокалистов в дэте. Мои любимые композиции - "Gutted", "Living Dissection", "Butchered At Birth", "Innards Decay", впрочем, бессмысленно перечислять - все отличные. И на протяжении всего альбома так и хочется побесноваться и помахать хаером, что я с удовольствием и делаю.

А на мой взгляд, это отличный альбом новых Amorphis... ну, новых на тот момент. Налицо отход от "рубилова" и "жестилова", которое еще было на предыдущих творениях группы, и постепенный уход в мелодизм и лиричность, которая так свойственна им сейчас. А все началось с альбома 1996-го "Elegy" и логически продолжилось на этом миньоне. А что? Ребята просто решили выдать на-гора релиз спокойных и лиричных песен. И они имели на это право: даже самые тру-металхэды иногда могут позволить себе отдохнуть.