5 January 2011

Gato Barbieri-Obsession 1967 (feat-J.F.Jenny- Clark,A.Romano)Affinity-lp,EAFF-12



















Heres a unique if forgotten gem by Gato Barbieri , who's early playing is one of the marvels of .. the second wave of 60's free jazz.
Recorded during Barbieri's fecund Roman period whilst still a member of Don Cherry's fabulous group ... this  features the same ferociously inventive rythm section as "Togetherness".. one of Cherry's lesser known records...

Some confusion seems to exist regarding this session ,which is sometimes mistaken for 'In search of the mystery:" Barbieri's  ESP album, of the same year featuring very different versions of Michelle and Obsession #2 ..for my money good as In Search ... is, its the weaker session!

 Romano ,Jenny-Clark and Barbieri .. had also appeared  the previous year on the spectacular "Nuovo Sentimenti'by Giorgio Gaslini.. along with Cherry... strongly recommended it can be found on Gaslini's intergrale disc 4- Soul Note-121352/3-2..


This whole record  has the feel of having been flayed down in one take without a break ...then later Edited into 3 tracks.

Any fan of contemporary Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman , will notice just how hard he must have listened to this and other 60's barbieri .. it definitely brings to mind  Sad life and Siero...
...but for the sound and my familiarity with Barbieri's inimitable tone , in a blind fold test i would almost certainly guess this as a  Perelman record
In Short a Masterful scorcher that ought to be heard and Cherished ..
thanks to Iain ,who turned nme onto this one 20 years ago ..and who's vinyl i have transferred..

I have to confess to liking all but the most over produced, and Disco-fied of Barbieri's records ...its a sprawling uneven oeuvre, but one containing many beauties and depths ,which are well worth seeking out.


-Obsession- : Gato Barbieri (ts) Jean-François Jenny-Clark (b) Aldo Romano (d)


Milan, May /June 1967

Obsession pt 1 Affinity (E)AFF12

Obsession pt 2 -

Michelle   



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21 comments:

  1. SOTISE5 January 2011 at 05:52:00 CET

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  2. Wallofsound5 January 2011 at 08:55:00 CET

    Thanks for sharing, SOTISE.

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  3. wightdj5 January 2011 at 17:26:00 CET

    I had fo0rgotten this session. Thanks.

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  4. gut5 January 2011 at 18:39:00 CET

    imo one of the best barbieri's, thanks for posting.

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  5. Clifford Allen5 January 2011 at 21:35:00 CET

    Oh yeah, a fine one indeed. Wish there was more out there (and maybe there is somewhere) from this session.

    I like the ESP a lot, too, though.

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  6. unitstructure7 January 2011 at 03:48:00 CET

    thanks.the bluenote recordings with don cherry and the duo with dollar brand have been lifting me up for years.never knew about this one.

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  7. serviceton8 January 2011 at 01:07:00 CET

    Is good !!
    Many Thanks
    :o)

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  8. longbranch11 January 2011 at 02:39:00 CET

    Thanks, looks great, never managed to hear this before.

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  9. Sivad11 January 2011 at 17:18:00 CET

    Great Sotise!

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  10. Peter26 January 2012 at 02:41:00 CET

    Many thanks Sot!

    I'm expecting this to be a real gut-pumper ... Forest & The Zoo style minus Cherry (or possibly minus Lacy). The same "rhythm section" as for Lacy on Monk two years later, a storming couple of musicians in any form.

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  11. Anonymous21 January 2013 at 22:20:00 CET

    unfortenally! this link is down (:

    with lnx.lu (= 'Noch Single' ...)
    I can't and will not be connected.

    Hope you will uploading this GEMM
    again!

    thx
    aljochina

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  12. kinabalu22 January 2013 at 09:35:00 CET

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  13. Anonymous22 January 2013 at 15:36:00 CET

    Many thanks for the link, kinabalu!
    greetings aljo

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  14. Anonymous27 January 2013 at 19:20:00 CET

    being relatively new to this blog - for starters a heartfelt thanks for every contributor's efforts

    just like to point out for all those interested in a hard-copy (cd that is) that these sessions are relatively readily available - at least here in france

    it makes out about half of "gato barbieri with dollar brand" - a title obviously not referring to these tracks but to the second half, another afinity title "hamba khale" - it's vol 15 of the 6th series of "les génies du jazz" - and that's one of these mags with disc deals - some jawdropping stuff in these series - way beyond what you would expect - the same could be said about the 'génies du rock' and 'génies du blues' series from the same publisher - looks they actually hired some connoisseurs - a lot of the charly/affinity catalogue in the jazz series for instance - but i'm drifting off

    volumes in these series go for around 1€ on the many fleemarkets over here - not sure how you would lay your hands on them outside of france

    http://www.discogs.com/Gato-Barbieri-With-Dollar-Brand-Gato-Barbieri-With-Dollar-Brand/release/3624663

    r.

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  15. apf26 March 2013 at 08:01:00 CET

    Thank you!

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  16. Solomon30 November 2013 at 00:00:00 CET

    Thank you.

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  17. Unknown30 June 2014 at 00:18:00 CEST

    Could you reupload, please?
    Thanks

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  18. kinabalu1 July 2014 at 15:41:00 CEST

    New links:

    Mega

    Adrive

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  19. Newmill Mark15 March 2015 at 17:57:00 CET

    Good old mega, file still active - and especially, good old you for sharing!

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  20. Anonymous26 March 2016 at 17:58:00 CET

    thanks for this! anything with Jenny-Clark is vital listening in my book...

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  21. roberth5 September 2022 at 10:14:00 CEST

    thanks kinabalu the adrive link is still alive
    roverth

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