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Title: Gato Barbieri With Lonnie Liston Smith - Bolivia
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1973, Jazz, Latin Spiritual Jazz, Rosario, Argentina 7/26
Matrix #: FD-10158
Condition: VG+, sounds great, looks great (CC) | Members: Gato B (32' - 16'), Lonnie L (40' - Alive)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: Barbieri carried the politics and pain of Latin America into his sound, using screams, folk melodies, and raw tone to make jazz feel like exile, protest, and survival.
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Scene Ecology: Bolivia sits in the Flying Dutchman universe, where spiritual jazz, Afro-Latin rhythm, political feeling, and post-Coltrane searching all crossed paths.
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Studio Lore: Lonnie Liston Smith’s electric piano gives the record a deep, floating center, balancing Barbieri’s wild tenor sound with cosmic groove and heavy atmosphere.
7/16/2026 CC