Music to soothe the soul. Barbara Paris can take you on a vacation to Brazil Paris or to an intimate jazz club. Swing ballads and blues that make you want to sway and swing. This music is available for digital download at itunes.

7 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Bossa Nova



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Barbara Paris is an excellent jazz vocalist able to make even war-horses sound fresh through her enthusiasm and subtle creativity.
She grew up in a musical family and as a child played violin, piano and then guitar. Barbara gained early experience as a folk singer while a teenager, but soon discovered jazz. However, music was put on the side for a time, as she worked as a hairdresser. The singer dated her first real jazz performance as having taken place on April 3, l989. Barbara was encouraged by Eddie Shu, a tenor saxophonist formerly with the Gene Krupa, and Claude Tissendier, a saxophonist with Claude Bolling's Orchestra. She worked in Europe with Tissendier and for five years off and on with pianist Joe Bonner in Colorado.
Barbara Paris has recorded several fine CD's for her Perea label and is a welcome fixture in the Colorado jazz scene, occasionally singing on both the East and West Coasts and in Europe.
- Scott Yanow
All Music Guide to Jazz