Gato barbieri biography examples
Leandro José “Gato” Barbieri, perhaps best known as the composer and performer of the soundtrack for Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial Last Tango in Paris..
Gato was born Leandro Barbieri in in Rosario, Argentina into a musical family.
Gato Barbieri
Argentine jazz musician (1932–2016)
Musical artist
Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016) was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of the 1970s.[1] His nickname, Gato, is Spanish for "cat".[2]
Biography
Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearing Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time".
He played the clarinet and later the alto saxophone while performing with Argentine pianist Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, while playing in Rome, he 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, he began to develop the warm and gritty tone with which he is associated.
In the late 1960s, he was fusing music from South America into his playing a