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Title: To get to love jazz
Review: Again, it is clear: the quality of the singing voice reaches its top when it sounds like an instrument. Patricia Barber has perfect timing and what is more, she has a terrific sense of humor. In "If This isn't Jazz" it is displayed with intelligence, not only in the words but especially in the use of the instruments (the hauling guitar) and when she sings: "if the real thing is coming along" she's telling the truth.As pointed out by my predecessors the sound quality is superb, listen to "The Beat Goes On" and hear the public in the background clapping to the rhythm. The rhythm section is best judged by listening to "Black Magic Woman", it leaves the Santana performance far behind. Strictly speaking we cannot say that what Patricia Barber does is jazz, it is fusion, but fusion in her own way, more reminiscent to jazz than what Holly Cole or Cassandra Wilson do.
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