El Pampero
Context
Title track (nearly 14 minutes) of the album recorded live at the Montreux festival in June 1971 and released by Flying Dutchman, produced by Bob Thiele. The Argentine tenor leads Lonnie Liston Smith, Chuck Rainey, Bernard Purdie and Naná Vasconcelos there, the year before his music for "Last Tango in Paris."
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, Free jazz. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).