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Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue is an effects album

Drives me a little nuts how many still praise this album as the end all Jazz album for audiophiles. 

Mind you, I really like Miss Barber's music, and some tracks on Cafe Blue, but Cafe Blue, the darling of many an audiophile, isn't even close to her best album.  At best its Audiophile bait. At worst it's preternaturally sterile and lab grown. 

Live at the Green Mill for instance is just such a better album to listen to.

 

 

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steelhead
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Love her voice, verve, composition, and to me she is a true talent

Some of the very best digital recording ever done in my opinion.

Prefer Companion and then Cafe Blue.  The SACD's are killer.

But if you don't dig her, I guess you can sell your Barber acquisitions.

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