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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Live jazz at its very best,
By Ned Burks "John Hammond junkie" (Berryville, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pampero (Audio CD)
For real jazz fans, two words suffice for this recording: Get it. El Pampero is one of the greatest live jazz recordings ever made, a showcase for the soaring tenor saxophone of Gato Barbieri and a primer on what spontaneous jazz music can aspire to at its most passionate and joyous. The ensemble work by Gato's partners on this outing is superb. And after all these years, I still believe that the way Gato Barbieri weaves the hypnotic folk music of South America into the very North American textures of mainstream jazz points the way to the future for this still vibrant form of music.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
el pampero,
By Michael Mannino (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pampero (Audio CD)
This Album is absolutely awesome. The intensity of the first track in particular parallels Coltrane's playing. Some might be put off by the timbre of Gato's "voice" shrieking and screaming. Not one of mom's favorite albums. This recording is for real.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
High-Energy Latin Jazz,
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This review is from: Pampero (Audio CD)
I am a little bit of a latecomer to the music of Gato Barbieri, having come on board with the issue of Caliente back in the 1970s. Since that time, I have stuck with him through the good and the occasionally execrable and have also gone backwards in his musical catalog to discover his roots. I bought El Pampero several years ago, listened to it for a while, forgot about it, and only lately rediscovered it when thumbing through my music collection for CDs I had not heard in a while.
El Pampero is about what you would expect from a Gato Barbieri concert in his early days of burgeoning international popularity. The remarkable thing about it is that according to the liner notes, the band was composed mainly of other musicians who just happened to be playing with their own bands at Montreux, since Barbieri left most of his own regular group at home. This concert is high-energy Latin jazz, full of bombast and staccato bursts. Here's my impression of the music: The title cut honks, blasts, and screams its way through nearly fifteen minutes of intense, heated jazz; Mi Buenos Aires Querido sounds nothing like the classic song, but rather is an aimless, unstructured blowfest that sounds like the musicians are just warming up; Brazil is recognizable but startling in that Barbieri's arrangement begins it in the middle of the song; and El Arriero, well, if you know Yupanqui you'll recognize the refrain. I like that last one best. Part of the rap against Barbieri has always been his obsession with Third World topics and the tendency toward bombastic performances in concert. Some would say that is part of his charm. You get a little of both here, both in the music and in the liner notes in the accompanying booklet. Overall, El Pampero is not a bad album but it doesn't deserve the mostly high praise it has gotten here. I'll listen again on occasion, but most fans will probably be more satisfied listening to his better studio albums.
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