Gato Barbieri

A few years ago, Herb Alpert producing Gato Barbieri would have seemed a bizarre joke.
Why, in the late Sixties, the high-energy Argentine tenor saxophonist was on a label whose
liner notes were always in Esperanto! And in the Seventies, Barbieri has talked a lot about
the Third World and recorded with native South American musicians. But, in this weird age
of crossover, Alpert has produced Barbieri's most commercial album. And it's ok... More >