- Gato Barbieri
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Name = Gato Barbieri
Img_capt =Gato in 1970
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Genre =latin jazz ,jazz
Occupation =musician ,bandleader
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Label =Impulse! Records ,A&M Records ,Flying Dutchman Records ,United Artists Records ,ESP-Disk ,Durium Records
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Notable_instruments =Leandro Barbieri (born on
November 28 1934 inRosario ,Santa Fe Province ,Argentina ) better known as Gato Barbieri (Spanish for "Barbieri the Cat") is an Argentinejazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during thefree jazz movement in the 1960s and from hislatin jazz recordings in the 1970s. [ [http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/default.aspx?aid=2683 Gato Barbieri - Impulse! Records ] ] Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearingCharlie Parker 's "Now's the Time." He played theclarinet , then thealto saxophone while performing with the Argentine pianistLalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, while inRome , he was playing thetenor saxophone , and also worked with the trumpeter Don Cherry. By now influenced byJohn Coltrane 's late recordings, as well as those from other 'Free jazz ' saxophonists such asAlbert Ayler andPharoah Sanders , the warm and gritty tone, which would become his trademark sound, began to develop. In the late 1960s, he was fusing musics fromSouth America into his playing and contributed to multi-artist projects likeCharlie Haden 's "Liberation Music Orchestra " andCarla Bley 's "Escalator Over The Hill ". His score forBernardo Bertolucci 's film "Last Tango in Paris " earned him aGrammy Award and led to a record deal withImpulse! 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 .Nancy Savoca and her husband, Rich Guay, are working on a documentary of Barbieri's life and work.Discography
* "Menorama" (private pressing, 1960)
* "Gato Barbieri & Don Cherry" (1965)
* "Togetherness" (Don Cherry, 1965)
* "Complete Communion" (Don Cherry, 1966)
* "Symphony for Improvisers" (Don Cherry, 1966)
* "In Search Of Mystery;" later issued as Obsession Affinity (1967)
* "Hamba Khale" (withDollar Brand , 1968)
* "Hamba Khale" (withDollar Brand , 1968)
* "Orgasm" (Alan Shorter , 1968)
* "Communications" with the "Jazz Composer's Orchestra ", (1968)
* "Under fire" (1969)
* "The Third World" (1969)
* "Liberation Music Orchestra (album) " (Charlie Haden , 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)
* "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)References
External links
* [http://www.gatobarbierinewsletter.com El Pampero - The Official Gato Barbieri Newsletter Online]
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* [http://members.aol.com/ilebaba/adeleke/barbieri.html Fan site]
* [http://www.music-city.org/Gato-Barbieri/discography/ Gato Barbieri discography, news, bio from Music City]
* [http://centralentertainment.com/gato/ Biography]
* [http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?ob=ros&src=lb&aid=2683 Gato at Impulse!]
* [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/atm-qa-200810.html Gato Barbieri was the inspiration for the design of the saxophonist Muppet 'Zoot']
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