Gato Barbieri - Chapter One - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This third in the Naxos complete Martinu solo piano music series represents the most mature style of his work. It begins with Martinu' two masterworks for the genre The Fantaisie et toccata, written as he made his escape from Paris in 1940.

Gato Barbieri - Standards Lost And Found 1 - What can be heard in this unreleased studio recording can be considered a Gato Barbieri in purity. ... May I add, that I am proud to be part of this recording. Franco D'Andrea. The of these recordings fills a gap in Barbieri's discography. The artist we met in his first work as a single leader, In Search Of The Mystery (1967), moved in the realm of pure improvisation, going in the direction of the spirituality of Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders. In the Roman sessions, however, Barbieri recovers his original matrix deeply rooted in the language of John Coltrane and, in part, in that of the early Ornette Coleman. To some extent it is a completely new Barbieri that emerges from these recordings.

After the success of their debut Fundamental Music in 2006 (part of the successful Jazz thing Next Generation series), the members of Tré were looking for a return to simplicity. To that end, the trio borrowed from German art writer Johann Joachim Winkelmann (1717-1768), who in turn inspired Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The material on this CD focuses on simplicity in answer to the overloaded art of the Baroque and Rococo periods.