Gato Barbieri Live from the Latin Quarter (1993)

When Gato Barbieri signed to Impulse Records in 1973 for a series of critically lauded albums he had already enjoyed a celebrated career as a vanguard musician who had worked with Don Cherry and Abdullah Ibrahim then known as Dollar Brand recorded for three labels as a leader and scored and performed the soundtrack to director Bernardo Bertoluccis film Last Tango in Paris Chapter One Latin America was a huge step forward musically for the Argentineanborn saxophonist even as it looked to the music of his heritage This turned out to be the first of four chapters in his series on Latin America and for it he teamed not with established jazz musicians but instead folk and traditional musicians from his native country and recorded four of the albums five cuts in Buenos Aires the final track a multitracked solo piece was recorded in Rio de Janeiro