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These long, long out of print essential Audiophile titles are now back and pressed at QRP. These serious Audiophile’s dream titles, Cafe Blue, Nightclub, Modern Cool & Companion are absolute must haves! See what MOJO, STEREOPHILE, TIME, FREMER, NEW YORK TIMES, JAZZ TIMES and many others are saying about these…

PATRICIA BARBER       COMPANION - 180g    2LP

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A Stunning Recording! A Legendary Live Show! Remastered from the Original Analog Masters, Vinyl Mastering by Doug Sax and 180g 2LP Pressed at QRP!

An Audiophile Favorite Given New Life! Featuring three sides at 33 1/3 and one side at 45 RPM! 

Features:

• 180 Gram High-Quality Audiophile Vinyl

• Double LP

• 3 Sides @ 33 1/3 rpm Speed, 1 Side @ 45rpm Speed

• Remastered from the Original Analog Master Mixes

• Vinyl Mastering by Doug Sax, The Mastering Lab, Ojai, CA

• Includes Bonus Tracks "So What" (never before released on LP) and "You Are My Sunshine"

• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings (QRP)

• Heavy Full Color Gatefold Jacket

Patricia Barber’s Companion was a record of firsts for Barber and Premonition. First recording of Barber’s legendary live show. First release under the Blue Note/Premonition joint imprint, the only such business arrangement in Blue Note’s storied history. And first Stereophile RECORDING OF THE MONTH. Designed as a “companion” to Barber’s previous studio recording Modern Cool, the album features several re-invented Modern Cool tracks, some of the best Barber pop covers on record and one ingenius new Barber original. 

This issue of Companion was re-mastered for vinyl by the great Doug Sax from the Original Analog Master Mixes and features three sides at 33 1/3 and one side at 45 RPM so that listeners get the full original release plus two bonus tracks and enjoy the opportunity to compare Sax’s mastering to that of MoFi’s 2002 LP version. Without doubt, listeners will be impressed. A stunning recording -- an audiophile favorite since it’s 1999 release -- given new life by one of the great mastering engineers of our time. 

"In an aviary full of mynah birds, Patricia Barber flies alone. For a sensitive lug like moi, she's the ultimate anti-diva, the failed romantic's last hope amid the antediluvian cant of the new classicism." - Stereophile Recording Of The Month! 

“Barber creates an artful blend of lyrics and music, framed in a literary perspective, for delivery as jazz performance. Remarkable.” Los Angeles Times 

“A singer who takes romance seriously.” - New York Times 

“Barber rivals  as post-millennial jazz’s most inventively individualistic singer-songwriter.” - Jazz Times 

Musicians:

, piano, vocals, Hammond B-3

Michael Arnopol, bass

John McLean, guitar

Eric Montzka, drums

Ruben P. Alvarez, percussion

Jason Narducy, guest vocalist on "Touch of Trash"

Selections:

LP1 - Side One (33 1/3 rpm)

1. The Beat Goes On

2. Use Me

3. You Are My Sunshine (Bonus Track)

LP1 - Side Two (33 1/3 rpm)

1. Like JT

2. Let It Rain

3. Touch Of Trash

LP2 - Side Three (33 1/3 rpm)

1. If This Isn't Jazz

2. So What (Bonus Track)

LP2 - Side Four (45 rpm)

1. Black Magic Woman