Que Pasa

Gato Barbieri | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 2011)
• Original Release Date: April 22, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: COLUMBIA
• ASIN: B000002BR7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,994 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > World Music > Caribbean & Cuba > Cuba
  • #45 in Music > Jazz > Latin Jazz
  • #71 in Music > Jazz > Smooth Jazz

Track Listings

1. Straight Into The Sunrise

2. Blue Gala

3. Mystica

4. Dancing With Dolphins

5. Circulos

6. Guadelope

7. Cause We've Ended As Lovers

8. Indonesia

9. The Woman I Remember

10. Granada

11. Adentro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Barbieri returns with sensual, smooth jazz, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Que Pasa (Audio CD)

Gato Barbieri, one of the most distinctive instrumentalists in jazz, is in top form on Que Pasa. Barbieri's tone and sense of melody is stunning--evoking a myriad of emotions with just one phrase. This is no more evident than on the opening track, "Straight into the Sunrise," which is dripping with sensual and moving lines that are unsurpassed in jazz today. Barbieri's rare ability to use his instrument to convey his emotions is amazing; it's as though he is baring his most intimate thoughts and feelings to the listener. Check out "Blue Gala" for some of his trademark smouldering sax melodies, and "Circulos", a tight and sexy romp which alternately swings and sways while Gato's saxophone creates a dynamic sense of movement. If you're looking for the epitome of smooth jazz from a true modern master, look no further than Que Pasa.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back On Track, August 1, 2000

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Kurt Harding "bon vivant" (Boerne TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Que Pasa (Audio CD)

It had been so long since Gato had released an album, I thought he had disappeared from the music scene. From Tropico on, Gato seemed to have lost his bearings only occasionally showing glimpses of his storied past. Now here he is again after a ten year hiatus and he's back on track. Que Pasa opens with the wonderfully smooth Straight into the Sunrise and winds up with the moving Adentro. Though I like every cut on this CD, the best are Straight Into the Sunrise, Blue Gala, and a tremendous rendition of Stevie Wonder's Cause We've Ended As Lovers which is even more powerful than Jeff Beck's standout version. I recommend this to anyone who appreciates saxophone and especially to Barbieri apostates who had given up on him. Que Pasa is a winner!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aplausos from an old Gato fan, May 25, 2000

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Ned Burks "John Hammond junkie" (Berryville, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Que Pasa (Audio CD)

A great outing from the aging Argentinean lion. After all these years, he's still got that gorgeously full, heartbreaking tenor sound that nobody else comes close to matching. I highly recommend this record for Gato beginners, but I would also steer them to the great Flying Dutchman recordings of the early 1970s. Check out "Under Fire," "Bolivia," or "Fenix" to really hear this cat blow. And my favorite, one of the greatest live jazz concerts ever caught on tape, "El Pampero." Pampero was recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1971 and includes some marvelous interplay between Gato, pianist Lonnie Liston Smith on Fender Rhodes, Chuck Rainey on bass, Pretty Purdie on drums, Sonny Morgan on the congas, and Brazilian wizard Nana Vasoncelas on berimbau and other exotic percussion instruments. This one cooks like nothing you've ever heard. Saludos, Gato. Do not go gently into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light . . .