Gato Barbieri - Fenix (1975 Japanese Flying Dutchman Vinyl LP)

Vinyl: EX
Sleeve: EX
Obi: EX

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Gato Barbieri - Fenix | Vinyl LP - 1975 Japanese Flying Dutchman (LAX 3052, Flying Dutchman 1500 Series, King Record Co. Ltd.)

Leandro "Gato" Barbieri had spent the 1960s pursuing free jazz in Europe, moving through Ornette Coleman's circle and recording under Don Cherry. By 1970 he was back in New York, reconsidering what it meant to be an Argentine playing jazz. Fenix was the result: a record built around the music he had grown up with, filtered through the electric ensemble that Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label was well positioned to assemble.

Ron Carter plays electric bass; Lonnie Liston Smith plays piano and electric piano; Lennie White plays drums; Na Ná brings berimbau and congas; Gene Golden adds congas and bongos. Barbieri's tenor plays over and through all of it, large-toned and direct. Only one track is his own original — "Tupac Amaru," named for the 18th century Peruvian revolutionary leader. "Carnavalito" is a traditional Andean folk melody arranged by Edmundo Zaldívar. "Falsa Bahiana" was written by Geraldo Pereira, the Brazilian samba composer. "El Día Que Me Quieras" is Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera's 1935 tango, the kind of music Barbieri had heard in Buenos Aires as a child. "El Arriero" is by Atahualpa Yupanqui, the great Argentine folk and protest singer. "Bahia" is by Ary Barroso, the Brazilian composer who also wrote "Aquarela do Brasil."

This 1975 Japanese Flying Dutchman pressing (LAX 3052) is part of the Flying Dutchman 1500 Series, manufactured by King Record Co. Ltd., with OBI strip and insert containing Japanese text.