El Pampero available on March 22 2018 from Amazon for 8.05
Gato Barbieri - El Pampero (Music CD) available on April 13 2015 from Base for 8.99
UPC bar code 029667528320 ξ1 registered February 04 2015
UPC bar code 029667528320 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Jazz Audio
Manufacturered by BGP / Beat Goes Public
Product weight is 0.18 lbs.
Shrink-wrapped 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 Pampero. It is semi-acoustic jazz at its 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. Given four stars by the All Music Guide, this is considered to be one of the greatest live jazz recordings of the 70s.
