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Title: Gato Barbieri - Chapter Four: Alive In New York
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1975, Jazz, Latin Jazz and Avant-Garde Jazz, Rosario, Argentina 8/26
Matrix #: ASD-9303
Condition: VG++ (LM) | Members: Gato B (32' - 16') | Producer: Ed Michel
Cultural Facts:

1. Recording Story: Recorded live at New York’s Bottom Line in February 1975, the album features Ron Carter, Howard Johnson, Eddie Martinez, Paul Metzke, Portinho, and Ray Armando surrounding Barbieri’s explosive tenor saxophone.

2. Personal Struggle: In the late 1960s, Barbieri went through a personal and creative crisis as he felt increasingly disconnected from the American free-jazz movement, ultimately finding a new identity by reconnecting his improvisation with Latin American music and politics.

3. Career Turning: Chapter Four completed Barbieri’s remarkable Impulse! “Chapter” series, which fused free jazz with Argentine, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and other Latin American traditions.