AWARD-WINNING SINGER/PIANIST/COMPOSER PATRICA BARBER TO RELEASE ‘MYTHOLOGIES’, NEW JAZZ SONG CYCLE BASED UPON GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ON BLUE NOTE AUGUST 15

In 2003, the acclaimed singer-pianist-composer Patricia Barber became one of the few Jazz musicians ever to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she took the opportunity to create one of the most ambitious and affecting works of her career. Mythologies is a song cycle based on Greek mythology, which uses characters from The Metamorphoses of Ovid as the basis for each of the 11 songs, giving these timeless stories a uniquely contemporary and compelling musical setting.

Barber, whom TIME magazine once referred to as a cross between Susan Sontag and Diana Krall, has now recorded Mythologies for release on Blue Note Records on August 15. Built around her dynamic quartet, Mythologies also features a guest saxophonist, vocal soloists, a gospel choir, and children hip hop artists.

MYTHOLOGIES TRACK LISTING
1. The Moon
2. Morpheus
3. Pygmalion
4. Hunger
5. Icarus (for Nina Simone)
6. Orpheus/Sonnet
7. Persephone
8. Narcissus
9. Whiteworld/Oedipus
10. Phaethon
11. The Hours