Patricia Barber

Patricia Barber (born November 8, 1955, Lisle, Illinois, U.S.) is an American jazz musician who achieved international acclaim in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Barber, the daughter of two musicians, began taking classical piano lessons at age six. She grew up in Illinois and Iowa, majored in classical music and psychology at the University of Iowa, and initially resisted becoming a jazz musician. Jazz, however, proved an irresistible lure, and in 1979, a year...