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...first it seems difficult to put your finger on saxophonist Gato Barbieri's current problems. But put on his incomplete "Communion" album, recorded with trumpeter Don Cherry in the early '60s (when Gato was still Leandro), and then compare it with his most recent "Alive in New York" album and you'll spot the difference immediately. It's all in the personnel...
...Gato has matured, to borrow from some of Nat Hentoff's album lining prose, and his stuff has gotten more vibrant, if less free in form over the years. He has, however, traded in the top jazz back-up men for some players who would do better accompanying Bruce Springsteen. Now Gato's in town, but before you go down to Paul's Mall to see him, consider this: the last time he was in Boston he played nothing but jazz/rock including cuts from his "Alive" album, which he recorded one week after his appearance here...
Nevertheless Gato doesn't let up and gives you a full performance relatively unimpeded by the noise that surrounds...
Coming into town for a five-day stay at Paul's Mall with his jazz/rock legions next week will be Gato Barbieri with AI Jarreau. More on that later...
Sandwiched between Na Na on belmbau and Moulay Ari Hafid on dumbeg on the old Gato Barbleri albums is the fine print name of planist Lonnie Liston Smith. Occasionally in those early takes, between Gato's blasts and the percussionists' meanderings, you could make out what sounded like some pretty sweet music coming from Smith's direction. Apparently the word got to Gato that Smith was doing good things with the plano and it wasn't long before the saxophonist boosted him to "featuring" status on his latest albums. The logical extension of all this is happening this weekend...