Gato Barbieri

Gato Barbieri
Born: Nov 28, 1932 in Rosario, Argentina
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Genre: Jazz
Styles: Latin Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Modal Music, Modern Creative
Biography: Gato Barbieri is the second Argentine musician to make a significant impact upon jazz -- the first being Lalo Schifrin, in whose band Barbieri played as a teenager. His story has been that of an elongated zigzag odyssey between his homeland and North America. He started out playing to traditional Latin ...Read full biography
Fenix
Released: 1971
Label: Flying Dutchman
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Some artists totally change directions; some reinvent their personalities. It is hard to know exactly what to make of the case of this Argentinian tenor saxophonist, who first appeared as a sideman on ...Read full review
Last Tango in Paris
Released: 1972
Label: United Artists
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Although some of the smoky sax solos get a little uncomfortably close to 1970s fusion cliché, Gato Barbieri's score to Bertolucci's 1972 classic is an overall triumph. Suspenseful jazz, melancholy orchestration, ...Read full review
More Gato Barbieri albums: Main Albums (30), Compilations (12), DVD/Video (2)
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