OUT NOW! Solo piano for sleepless nights. Dreams is not a typical New Age album. It is an inspired set of deeply present, original pieces, played on one of the finest pianos in the world. In an ever-noisy world, finding a relaxed and present state of being is golden. The music of Dreams welcomes the listener to experience every moment with soulful presence.

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“Higbie generated energy and enthusiasm whenever she was on stage, like a jolt of bright sunlight.” —L.A. Times

“Stepping Stones” from the album Dreams
by Barbara Higbie on Slow Baby Records.

“Barbara Higbie is one of the most exciting musicians I have heard, full of life and brilliant in her playing.”—Phil Elwood, S.F. Examiner/Chronicle

“Higbie is a high priestess of collaboration….”
— SF Gate

“A jazz pianist who can write and sing like Laura Nyro and Carol King, a prize-winning folk fiddler who will interpret a John Coltrane tune through a French vocal or add her own lyrics to one of Django Reinhardt’s last compositions, Higbie brings all her gifts to bear…”
—Derk Richardson

As a cofounder, with Darol Anger, of the acoustic supergroup, “Montreux”, she recorded  Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival for Windham Hill Records in 1984, a landmark genre defining album. She continued to tour worldwide with Montreux, until leaving to pursue a solo career.

Her two CD’s with singer-songwriter Teresa Trull on Olivia/Second Wave and Slowbaby Records have won critical acclaim and a large nationwide following.

As a solo artist, Barbara’s first solo CD Signs of Life was named a Washington Post “Top Ten of the Year”. Three other solo releases, I Surrender, Variations on a Happy Ending and Alive in Berkeley followed to critical acclaim.  Read More

Barbara Higbie’s arrangement of the holiday classic “Greensleeves,” from her new album Solstice, features Seattle based electric cellist, Jami Sieber. Her cello harmonics and melodies interweave with Higbie’s rhythmic piano.  Bill Evans influenced chords frame the familiar tune. Solstice is produced by Lisa Vogel.

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Image left by Lynnly Labovitz.
Image right by Jill Cruse

Cover Design:
Deb McCarroll/Studio Pacific Design

Pianist, Vocalist, Composer, Mutli-Instrumentalist