GATO BARBIERI SEXTET "ANTIBES 1977"

 

Gato Barbieri, tenor saxophone, vocals
Edy Martinez, piano
Joe Carotenuto, guitar
Eddie Rivera Morales, double bass
Steve Jordan, drums
Angel Cachete Maldonado, percussion


01 - Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) (Carlos Santana-Tom Coster,comp) 7:13
02 - Don't Cry Rochelle (GB,comp) 13:36
03 - Los desperados (GB,comp) 10:54
04 - Fiesta (GB,comp) 11:16
05 - Adios (GB,comp) 17:15
06 - I Want You (Leon Ware-Arthur Ross,comp) 8:29
07 - Ann GB - El dia que me quieras (Carlos Gardel-Alfredo LePera,comp) 7:18

Recorded July 22, 1977 at Festival de Jazz d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France.

FM

Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - Confluence

This recording have been published under various names and various labels, Confluence seems to be the original title.

1The Aloe And The Wildrose

2 Hamba Khale!

3 To Elsa

4 Eighty First Street

Dollar Brand: Piano, Cello

Gato Barbieri: Tenor Saxophone

Recorded at Fonorama Studio, Milan, Italy, on March 16, 1968

Freedom tkcb 70338 serie freedom collection No 29 Japan Edition

Don Cherry-Togetherness 1965 (Inner City Vers 1976)

I don't imagine that there are many fans of this music who don't have this indispensable minor masterpiece  by,one of the greatest bands of their day.... it is as far as i know out of print , although if memory serves  it has been bootlegged on CD.

A live Parisian recording of dubious provenance  originally released on the Italian Durian label ,  this predates  THE  marvelous Symphony for improvisers , on which Cherry employed an expanded version of this basic quintet...With Ed Blackwell Cherry's friend and favourite drummer instead of Romano who plays on this.
superb music in less than high fidelity  .
ENJOY!!..


PS- i'm posting it by way of experimenting with a suitable file host  since quite a few people are struggling to use Mega.... basically this upload is a shot in the dark .

i would appreciate any feedback relating to the accessibility of  Mixturecloud

Gato Barbieri-Obsession 1967 (feat-J.F.Jenny- Clark,A.Romano)Affinity-lp,EAFF-12

Heres a unique if forgotten gem by Gato Barbieri , who's early playing is one of the marvels of .. the second wave of 60's free jazz.
Recorded during Barbieri's fecund Roman period whilst still a member of Don Cherry's fabulous group ... this  features the same ferociously inventive rythm section as "Togetherness".. one of Cherry's lesser known records...

Some confusion seems to exist regarding this session ,which is sometimes mistaken for 'In search of the mystery:" Barbieri's  ESP album, of the same year featuring very different versions of Michelle and Obsession #2 ..for my money good as In Search ... is, its the weaker session!

 Romano ,Jenny-Clark and Barbieri .. had also appeared  the previous year on the spectacular "Nuovo Sentimenti'by Giorgio Gaslini.. along with Cherry... strongly recommended it can be found on Gaslini's intergrale disc 4- Soul Note-121352/3-2..


This whole record  has the feel of having been flayed down in one take without a break ...then later Edited into 3 tracks.

Any fan of contemporary Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman , will notice just how hard he must have listened to this and other 60's barbieri .. it definitely brings to mind  Sad life and Siero...
...but for the sound and my familiarity with Barbieri's inimitable tone , in a blind fold test i would almost certainly guess this as a  Perelman record
In Short a Masterful scorcher that ought to be heard and Cherished ..
thanks to Iain ,who turned nme onto this one 20 years ago ..and who's vinyl i have transferred..

I have to confess to liking all but the most over produced, and Disco-fied of Barbieri's records ...its a sprawling uneven oeuvre, but one containing many beauties and depths ,which are well worth seeking out.

-Obsession- : Gato Barbieri (ts) Jean-François Jenny-Clark (b) Aldo Romano (d)

Milan, May /June 1967

Obsession pt 1 Affinity (E)AFF12

Obsession pt 2 -

Michelle   

Abdullah Ibrahim-(featuring,D.Cherry, J.Tchicai, B.Phillips,G.Barbieri)3-8-1968 Hamburg- Mono SBD

For those who have requested and are enjoying the wealth of fabulous South African music posts lately, here's another Epic Show from Hamburg .

Not Much provenance on this one, which purports to be a soundboard, beautiful music though.

And Certainly some of Ibrahim's most challenging music!

There seems to be no information about this concert online anywhere , its not even mentioned in Kassman's list of unofficial D.Cherry recordings.

"Hamba Khale" and the "aloe and the wild rose" also appeared on the Barbieri, Ibrahim collaboration 'confluence' ( freedom lp 28-467-9-u)from the same year, the reccuring tracks are almost precisely the same length's as the lp versions and coincidentally also in Mono.

Jabulani is a Beautiful John Tchicai, tune which first officially appeared on Roswell Rudd's self titled lp (AM 6114) and was frequently performed in concert by the original New York Art Quartet.

Heres a link to Ibrahim's Website for biographical info, and a line on his many available recordings.

Abdullah Ibrahim 3-8-1968 Hamburg, Germany

Source: Sound Board ?

Abdullah Ibrahim- piano

don cherry-tpt

John Tchicai- reeds

GatoBarbieri- reeds

Barre Phillips- bass

Makaya Ntshoko- drums.

01. Hamba Kahle 2:4002.

Announcement 0:4403.

The Aloe and the Wild Rose 14:1204.

Announcement 0:3505.

Portrait of a Bushman (omit Tchicai & Barbieri) 7:3606.

Announcement 0:2607.

Jabulani 6:4808.

Title 9:5609.

Title15:2910.

Title 10:55
Total time 69:25

Thanks to who ever recorded this , and to BlueNote 2005 ,who shared it on Dime-A-Dozen

Enjoy