Gato Barbieri - In Search Of The Mystery - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2014 reissue of the saxophonists' 1969 debut solo album released on Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman tag. Session musicians include Liberation Orchestra members Charlie Haden & Roswell Rudd, plus pianist Lonnie Liston Smith. It was a brash statement where free jazz and Latin rhythms collide and is a breathtaking demonstration of a style that made him one of jazz's great players of the 1970s. With his later classic 1976 Caliente album Barbiere's career soared to new heights.

Digitally remastered edition of this album from the Jazz great. After two albums which established Barbieri as an important new voice on the saxophone, his 1971 appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival made him a star. This performance was captured on the album EL PAMPERO. It is semi-acoustic Jazz at it's most satisfying. The Argentinian saxophonist pulled back slightly from Free Jazz and focused more on his roots, ably backed by Bernard Purdie on drums, Lonnie Liston Smith on keyboards and Nana Vasconcelos on percussion. The set of four numbers all have South American influence. The playing switches from contemplative to fiery, showing his debt to John Coltrane and other avant garde players, carefully woven into the rhythmic explorations. One of the greatest live Jazz recordings of the 70s.

Digitally remastered edition of this 1971 album. Argentine Gato Barbieri was one of the most important saxophonists to emerge in the early 1970s. a veteran of several important late '60s avant-garde outfits, he perfected the fusion of adventurous blowing and the rhythms of South America on Fenix.