Beata Pater

 Beata Pater

 The expressive voice of Beata Pater, who began her musical education asa classical violinist in Warsaw. Beata lived for a time in London, before repatriating to Tokyo where she established a reputation as a first rate jazz singer, working with well-known Americans such as pianist Walter Bishop, Jr. and drummer Jimmy Smith. By the time she settled in San Francisco in the mid-nineties, she was already a seasoned professional with a wide-ranging talent well suited forthe Bay Areaswide-ranging music scene.

 Blue, her fifth solo recording, is the second installment of the internationally acclaimed vocalists colorseries collaboration with pianist/composer Mark Little. The project teaming the Polish born virtuoso singer with the veteran piano man from Texas, which began with the 2006 release of Black, takes on a new and exciting character with Blue. The former date symbolized a beginning - rich, dark soilsfromwhich life springs with modern, edgy, interpretations of timeless classics from the Great American Songbook that revealed Beata's traditional jazz roots, displaying her rhythmic acuity and finetuned control of tonality, solidly placing her in the lineage of great songstresses, such as Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter and Shirley Horn. On Blue she takes what was first developed on Black inadifferent direction, eschewing the words of lyrics for a freersoundcentered around her uncanny ability to achieve emotional depththroughthe melodic manipulation of rhythm and pitch.