Companionship (subtitled Jazz Joint 2) is a double album compiling recordings from 1964 to 1970 by American jazz saxophonist/flautist Sahib Shihab which was released on the German Vogue Schallplatten label.Discogs Album Entry accessed May 2, 2016
Reception
AllMusic gave the album 4½ stars.
Track listing "Om Mani Padme Hum" (Francy Boland) – 5:41 "Bohemia After Dark" (Oscar Pettiford) – 3:40 "Companionship" (Sahib Shihab, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen) – 3:33 "Stoned Ghosts" (Benny Bailey) – 5:04 "Jay – Jay" (Kenny Clarke) – 2:52 "Dijdar" (Jimmy Woode) – 4:24 "Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 5:05 "CT + CB" (Bailey) – 5:22 "The Turk's Bolero" (Boland) – 2:50 "Talk Some Yak-Ee-Dak" (Woode) – 3:32 "Calypso Blues" (Nat King Cole) – 4:07 "Balafon" (Boland) – 3:06 "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:23 "Insensatez" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes) – 2:42 "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper) – 4:39 "Yah-Yah Blues" (Shihab) – 4:01 "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson) – 3:26 "Just Give Me Time" (Boland) – 3:13 "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:49 "Sconsolato" (Woode) – 2:30
Personnel Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone, flute Benny Bailey – trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 3, 4 & 8) Idrees Sulieman – trumpet (track 9) Åke Persson – trombone (tracks 6 & 9) Francy Boland – piano (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12 & 14–20) Jimmy Woode – bass, vocals Kenny Clarke – drums Fats Sadi – vibraphone percussion (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12 & 14–20) Joe Harris – percussion (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12 & 14–20) Milt Jackson – vocals (track 13)
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