Gato Barbieri

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Gato Barbieri (undated)

Leandro J. "Gato" Barbieri (born November 28, 1932 in Rosario , Argentina , † April 2, 2016 in New York City , New York ) was a jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ) and film composer .

Live and act

After studying music in Buenos Aires , he worked in Lalo Schifrin's orchestra from 1953 . In 1962 he moved to Europe (initially to Rome ), where he worked with Ted Curson , Jim Hall and, from 1965, Don Cherry . Because of the interesting work in the "Don Cherry Quintet" Barbieri went to New York in 1967 with him . There he established himself in the free jazz - Avantgarde by working with groups such as the " Jazz Composer's Orchestra " or the " Liberation Music Orchestra " by Charlie Haden . At the turn of the 1970s he went back to his roots, changed his style and now increasingly brought Latin American music (including Afro-Brazilian music ) with its diverse rhythms into a free jazz context . For this he worked intensively with percussionists like Naná Vasconcelos , Airto Moreira or James Mtume as well as with the bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi . The high point of this period were his recordings for the Flying Dutchman and Impulse record labels in the early 1970s : The Third World (1970), Fenix (1971), El Pampero (1972) and Bolivia (1973) were unique in their mix of jazz at the time and Latino. The wild saxophone solos to Latin American classics like El dia que me quieras were never achieved again - neither by Gato nor by others. Gato Barbieri also appeared in Carla Blei's oratorio Escalator over the Hill , as well as in the recordings of her suite A Genuine Tong Funeral with the Gary Burton Quartet and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. In 1972 Barbieri wrote the score for Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Last Tango in Paris , which won a Grammy .

It served as a visual model for the figure of the saxophonist Zoot from the Muppet Show .

Since the late 1970s, Gato Barbieri has played a mixture of modern jazz and pop music geared towards the general public's taste , for example with Carlos Santana (Europe) , without the intensity of his melodic saxophone playing having changed significantly. He was a great, powerful lyric poet - as his nickname Gato (the cat ) suggests. Since the death of his wife Michelle and a heart attack, he has only occasionally gone on tour or to the record studio. He died of pneumonia.

Discography

Albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US R&B R&B
1973 Last Tango in Paris
United Artists 045 		US166 (7 weeks)
US 		-
First published: April 1973
Soundtrack for the film The Last Tango in Paris
Grammy (Best Instrumental Composition)
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
1974 Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata
Impulse! 9279 		US160 (3 weeks)
US 		-
First published: September 1974
Producer: Ed Michel
1976 Caliente!
A&M 4597 		US75
gold
gold

(32 weeks)US 		R&B45 (3 weeks)
R&B
First published: August 9, 1976
Producers: Herb Alpert , Michelle Barbieri
1977 Ruby, Ruby
A&M 4655 		US66 (20 weeks)
US 		-
First published: October 1977
Producers: Herb Alpert, Michelle Barbieri
1978 Tropico
A&M 4710 		US96 (7 weeks)
US 		-
First published: July 1978
Producers: David Rubinson, Michelle Barbieri
1979 Euphoria
A&M 4774 		US116 (9 weeks)
US 		-
First published: July 1979
Producers: Jay Chattaway , Michelle Barbieri

More albums

  • 1967: In Search of the Mystery (Gato Barbieri Quartet, with Sirone , Calo Scott and Bobby Kapp ; ESP-Disk 1049)
  • 1968: Hamba Khale! (with Dollar Brand ; recording: May / June 1967 in Milan ; Togetherness 004)
  • 1970: The Third World ( Flying Dutchman 117)
  • 1971: Fenix (Flying Dutchman 144)
  • 1972: El Pampero (Flying Dutchman 151)
  • 1973: Under Fire (Flying Dutchman 156)
  • 1973: Bolivia (Flying Dutchman 158)
  • 1973: Chapter One: Latin America ( Impulse! 9248)
  • 1974: Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre (Impulse! 9263)
  • 1974: Yesterdays (Flying Dutchman 550)
  • 1974: Confluence ( reissue by Hamba Khale!; With Dollar Brand; Freedom 1003)
  • 1975: Chapter Four: Alive in New York (Impulse! 9303)
  • 1975: El Gato (Flying Dutchman 1147)
  • 1978: Obsession (Photo: May / June 1967 in Milan ; Affinity 12)
  • 1982: Bahia ( Fania 608)
  • 1983: Gato… Para Los Amigos !! (Live album, recording: June 1981; Doctor Jazz 39204)
  • 1983: Apasionado (Doctor Jazz 40183)
  • 1984: Passion and Fire (A&M 3029)
  • 1988: The Third World Revisited (Reissue by Yesterdays ; Bluebird 6945)
  • 1997: Qué Pasa ( Columbia 67855)
  • 1999: Che Corazón (Columbia 69690)
  • 2002: The Shadow of the Cat ( Peak 8509)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
R&B R&B
1977 Fiesta
Caliente! 		R&B63 (7 weeks)
R&B
First published: December 1976
Author: Gato Barbieri

More singles

  • 1973: El Sertao
  • 1973: La China
  • 1973: Last Tango in Paris - Tango (... and His Orchestra)
  • 1976: I Want You (release: September)
  • 1977: Europe (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
  • 1977: Nostalgia
  • 1978: Sunride
  • 1978: Poinciana (Song of the Tree)
  • 1978: Latin Lady
  • 1979: Firepower (release: May)
  • 1979: Secret Fiesta (release: September)
  • 1987: Tekno Mode (Leo Washington with Gato Barbieri and Billy Cobham )

Film music

  • 1969: Sketches for an African Oresty (Appunti per un'orestiade africana)
  • 1970: In the Abyss of the Night (Na boca da noite)
  • 1972: The last tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)
  • 1975: La guerra del cerdo
  • 1979: Firepower
  • 1982: Stranger's Kiss
  • 1996: Seven Servants

Lexigraphic entries

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  1. ↑ Cf. 1932: Llega al mundo el saxofonista 'Gato' Barbieri, uno de los grandes exponentes del jazz latino. El Siglo de Torreón, November 28, 2013. The relevant encyclopedias all state 1934 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Anthony McCartney et al. a .: Latin Jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri dies at age 83. (No longer available online.) In: charlotteobserver.com. The Charlotte Observer , April 3, 2016, archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on April 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.charlotteobserver.com
  3. ↑ Anika Gupta: The Woman Behind Miss Piggy ( Memento from September 27, 2009). Smithsonian Magazine October 2008.
  4. ↑ Gato Barbieri died Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 3, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Chart data: Billboard 200
  6. ↑ Gold / platinum database US
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9
  8. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4

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personal data
SURNAME Barbieri, Gato
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbieri, Leandro J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian film composer and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2016
Place of death New York City , New York , United States