Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue is an effects album

I've grown to like her. Maybe she was wrongly produced, or sounded too hard, in the beginning. I have the Mobile fidelity LP box version of Cafe blue and the sound is great although the performance is somewhat icy. Mythologies is an interesting album. And the sound and music is more warm and relaxed on  Live A fortnight in France, and The Cole Porter mix.

Try this one

Bo Kaspers Orkester - 10 latar live

excellent music and real dynamics…if you got a system for it :-)

@curiousjim  - Nina Simone is in the category of socially relevant, and poignant composers, not necessarily the most beautiful voice.

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.

Patricia Barber is a wildly talented singer, pianist and jazz artist, and Cafe Blue is an early recording of mostly original songs.  Famous Blue Raincoat is a beautiful album of Leonard Cohen songs, sung by Jennifer Warnes, who has a stunning alto voice.  She, along with Bonnie Raitt,  k.d.Lang, Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther provided background vocals on Roy Orbison's A Black And White Night.  They both happen to be well recorded, and have become audiophile demonstration records.  That just enhances the artistry evident on both albums.