Leandro Barbieri (born on November 28, 1934 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province) better known as El 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. 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 teaming with Argentine pianist Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, while in Rome, he played tenor saxophone, also with trumpeter Don Cherry. Influenced by John Coltrane's late recordings, as well as those from saxophonists Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders, Barbieri's warm and gritty tone began to form that would become his trademark sound. In the late 1960s, he was fusing the musics from South America into his playing. His music score for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris earned him a Grammy Award and landed him into a record deal with Impulse! Records. November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. ... Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory and marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz harmonies from the United States. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Charlie Parker Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ... Two soprano clarinets: a B♭ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... Alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a family of woodwind instruments invented by Adolphe Sax. ... Lalo Schifrin Lalo Schifrin (born on June 21, 1932) is an Argentine Jewish pianist and composer, most famous for composing the burning-fuse theme tune from the Mission:Impossible television series. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the Roman People) coordinates: 41°54′N 12°29′E Time Zone: UTC+1 Administration Subdivisions 19 municipi Province Rome Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni ( The Union ) Characteristics Area 1,285 km² Population 2,547,677 (2005 estimate) Density 1983/km... A Yanagisawa tenor sax. ... Don Cherry (18 November 1936 - 19 October 1995) was an innovative jazz trumpeter probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. ... John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), often known as Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936–November 1970) was an American jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. ... Reggie Workman, Pharoah Sanders, and Idris Muhammad, c. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Bernardo Bertolucci. ... Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo tango a Parigi, French: Le Dernier Tango à Paris) is a 1972 film which tells the story of an American widower who is drawn into a sexual relationship with a soon-to-be-married Parisian woman. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music... Impulse! Records is an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City. ...

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). A&M Records is a record label formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. ... Carlos Santana in concert, Barcelona 2003 Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born 20 July 1947) is a Mexican-American Grammy Award-winning musician and Latin-rock guitarist. ...

Though he continued to record and perform into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s, playing music that would fall into the arena of smooth jazz. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Smooth jazz is generally described as a genre of music that utilizes instruments (and, at times, improvisation) traditionally associated with jazz and stylistic influences drawn from, among other sources, funk, popular and R&B. Since the late 1980s, it has become highly successful as a radio format; one can tune...

Discography (incomplete)

• Complete communion (Don Cherry, 1965)
• Togetherness (Don Cherry, 1965)
• Symphony for Improvisers (Don Cherry, 1966)
• Hamba Khale (with Dollar Brand, 1968)
• Escalator Over The Hill (Carla Bley, 1968)
• Under fire (1969)
• The Third World (1969)
• Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden, 1969)
• El pampero (1971)
• Fenix (1971)
• Last tango in Paris (1972)
• Bolivia (1973)
• Chapter one: Latin America (1973)
• Chapter two: Hasta siempre (1973)
• Chapter three: Viva Emiliano Zapata (1974)
• Chapter four: Alive in New York (1975)
• Caliente (1976)
• I Grandi del Jazz (1976)
• Ruby Ruby (1977)
• Apasionado (1982)
• Que Pasa (1997)
• The Shadow of The Cat (2002)

Don Cherry (18 November 1936 - 19 October 1995) was an innovative jazz trumpeter probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. ... Don Cherry (18 November 1936 - 19 October 1995) was an innovative jazz trumpeter probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. ... Don Cherry (18 November 1936 - 19 October 1995) was an innovative jazz trumpeter probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. ... Abdullah Ibrahim, also known as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer who was born in Cape Town in 1934. ... Escalator Over The Hill (or EOTH) is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a chronotransduction with words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler, performed by the Jazz Composers Orchestra (JCOA). ... Liberation Music Orchestra is a jazz album by Charlie Haden, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music). ... Charles Edward Haden (born August 6, 1937) is a jazz double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. ...

External links

• Gato Barbieri discography, news, bio from Music City
• Biography
• Gato at Impulse! ]]