Bolivia/Under Fire by Gato Barbieri

2 LPs on 1 CD: BOLIVIA (1973)/UNDER FIRE (1971). Personnel: Gato Barbieri (vocals, tenor saxophone, flute); Lonnie Liston Smith (piano, electric piano); Stanley Clarke, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (bass); Airto Moreira (drums, percussion); Bernard Purdie, Roy Haynes (drums); M'Tume, Gene Golden (congas); Moulay Ali Hafid (dumbeg). Recorded in New York, New York in 1971 & 1973. Originally released on Flying Dutchman. Includes liner notes by Donald Elfman, Nat Hentoff and Robert Palmer. This double CD release is a prime example of early-1970s jazz fusion, with the flautist- saxophonist Gato Barbieri joined by many of the genre's leading figures, including the drummer Bernard Purdie, the bassist Stanley Clarke, and the pianist Lonnie Liston Smith, on a set dripping with as much tropical atmosphere as a Gauguin painting. Smith's keyboards provide much of the tonal coloring here, though the untethered emotion of Barbieri's keening saxophone is the obvious focus of both these albums. Minimize