Gato Barbieri - Standards - Lost And Found 2 - 2LP RSD25 (LP)

Record Store Day 2025.

A rare and little-known session by Argentinian saxophonist Gato Barbieri playing standards as opposed to his widely known work within Latin and free form jazz. This release fills a gap in Barbieris discography. The artist we met in his first work as a single leader, In Search Of The Mystery (1967), moved in the realm of pure improvisation, going in the direction of the spirituality of Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders. In the Roman sessions, however, Barbieri recovers his original matrix deeply rooted in the language of John Coltrane and, in part, in that of the early Ornette Coleman. To some extent it is a completely new Barbieri that emerges from these recordings.