Leandro Barbieri
(born on November 28 1934 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina) better known as Gato Barbieri
(Spanish for "Barbieri the Cat") is an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s. [1]
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Biography
Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearing
Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time." He played the
clarinet, then the
alto saxophone while performing with the Argentine pianist
Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, while in
Rome, he was playing the
tenor saxophone, and also worked with the trumpeter
Don Cherry. By now influenced by
John Coltrane's late recordings, as well as those from other '
Free jazz' saxophonists such as
Albert Ayler and
Pharoah Sanders, the warm and gritty tone, which would become his trademark sound, began to develop. In the late 1960s, he was fusing musics from
South America into his playing and contributed to multi-artist projects like
Charlie Haden's
Liberation Music Orchestra
and
Carla Bley's
Escalator Over The Hill
. His score for
Bernardo Bertolucci's film
Last Tango in Paris
earned him a
Grammy Award and led to a record deal with
Impulse! Records.
By the late 1970s he was working for
A&M Records, and moved his music towards jazz-pop with albums like
Caliente
(with his best known song,
Carlos Santana's
Europa
).
Though he continued to record and perform into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public arena. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s, playing music that would fall into the arena of
smooth jazz.
his music of the sound track for the film
Seven Servants by
Daryush Shokof earned him great ratings in
Billboard magazine as the top Jazz sound tracks and Jazz music in 1997.
Nancy Savoca and her husband, Rich Guay, are working on a documentary of Barbieri's life and work.
Discography
As leader
- Menorama
(private pressing, 1960)
- Gato Barbieri & Don Cherry
(1965)
- Under fire
(1969)
- The Third World
(1969)
- El Pampero
(1971)
- Fenix
(1971)
- Last Tango in Paris
(1972)
- Bolivia
(1973)
- Under Fire
(1973)
- Chapter One: Latin America
(1973)
- Chapter Two: Hasta siempre
(1973)
- Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata
(1974)
- Yesterdays
(1974)
- Chapter Four: Alive in New York
(1975)
- Confluence
(1975)
- Caliente!
(1976)
- I Grandi del Jazz
(1976)
- Ruby Ruby
(1977)
- Tropico
(1978)
- Passion And Fire
(1979)
- Euphoria
(1979)
- Bahia
(1982)
- Apasionado
(1982)
- Para Los Amigos
(1983)
- The Third World Revisited
(1998)
- Che Corazón
(1988)
- Qué Pasa
(1997)
- Che Corazón
(1999)
- The Shadow of The Cat
(2002)
- ''Europa "Earth' Cry Heaven's Smile" (Date unknown)
As sideman
- Togetherness
(Don Cherry, 1965)
- Complete Communion
(Don Cherry, 1966)
- Live at Café Montmartre 1966
(Don Cherry, 1966)
- Symphony for Improvisers
(Don Cherry, 1966)
- In Search Of Mystery;
later issued as Obsession Affinity (1967)
- Hamba Khale
(with Dollar Brand, 1968)
- Orgasm
(Alan Shorter, 1968)
- Communications
with Jazz Composer's Orchestra, (1968)
- Liberation Music Orchestra
(Charlie Haden, 1969)
- Escalator Over The Hill
(Carla Bley & Paul Haines, 1971)
References
- Allmusic Biography