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Award-Winning Recording On Audiophile 180g 45rpm 2LP! Includes 4 Bonus Tracks Available On Vinyl For The First Time! Pressed at RTI!
One of jazz music's most celebrated and literate artists gets the deluxe Impex Treatment on her 2019 collection Higher, available on 2-LP 45-rpm HQ-180 vinyl pressed at RTI. This thoughtfully curated set features Barber's celebrated art song cycle "Higher" and four bonus tracks available on vinyl for the first time. Stereophile's Robert Baird describes Higher as an album that "continues Barber's logical artistic path toward becoming an artist whose only boundaries exist in the limits of her own prodigious imagination. Rather than just the completion of a long-held desire to create art songs, Higher, as its title suggest, is the answer to a calling, one Patricia Barber is gloriously answering."
After the success of the song-cycle EU tour version of Higher, Impex Records is proud to announce this exclusive complete version, featuring the original's ten songs, plus an alternate version of "The Opera Song", featuring lyric soprano Katherine Werbiansky, and three gorgeous new standards ("Early Autumn", "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "Secret Love"). Legendary recording and mix engineer Jim Anderson's meticulous production provides masterly rendering of every detail, harmonic, and hushed background, while the delicate touch of mastering engineer Scott Hull helps to pull you into the wide-ranging space of this incredible work.
Features: • 180g Vinyl • Double LP • 45rpm • Award-winning recording by Jim Anderson • Complete version (Song Cycle & Bonus Tracks) • 4 Bonus Tracks on vinyl for the first time • Cut from the native DXD (352.8 kHz/32 bit) master files by Scott Hull at Masterdisk • Pressed at RTI • Deluxe finish gatefold tip-on jacket • Expanded large-format 12-page booklet with artist notes & essays
Musicians:  Patricia Barber piano, vocals Patrick Mulcahy bass Jon Deitemyer drums Neal Alger acoustic guitar Jim Gailloreto tenor saxophone Katherine Werbiansky  lyric soprano
Selections:  Side A: A1Muse (Barber) A2Surrender (Barber) A3Pallid Angel (Barber)
Side B: B1The Opera Song (Barber) B2High Summer Season (Barber) B3The Albatross Song (Barber)
Side C: C1Voyager (Barber) C2Higher (Barber) C3Early Autumn (Mercer, Burns, Herman)
Side D: D1In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) D2Secret Love (Francis, Frain) D3The Opera Song (Barber)