Wednesday, December 10, 2025

El Día Que Me Quieras


Somehow we forgot about this gem by Gato Barbieri. A deconstruction of a famous tango song, it is more lyrical and eloquent than Gato's freer interpretation of Piazzolla's "Prepárense" from The Third World. Both are excellent, yet very different in their interpretation. It is a pity Gato Barbieri shifted away from this approach to free jazz and the Latin American songbook after the first half of the 1970s...

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