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.
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)