Gato Barbieri
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Biography
[Edit]Gato Barbieri is the second Argentine musician to make a significant impact upon modern jazz — the first being Lalo Schifrin, in whose band Barbieri played. His story has been that of an elongated zigzag odyssey between his homeland and North America. He started out playing to traditional Latin rhythms in his early years, turning his back on his heritage to explore the jazz avant-garde in the '60s, reverting to South American influences in the early '70s, playing pop and fusion in the late '70s, only to go back and forth again in the '80s. North American audiences first heard Barbieri when he was a wild bull, sporting a coarse, wailing John Coltrane/Pharoah Sanders-influenced tone. Yet by the mid-'70s, his approach and tone began to mellow somewhat in accordance with ballads like "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" (which he always knew as the vintage bolero "Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado") and Carlos Santana's "Europa." Still, regardless of the idiom in which he works, the warm-blooded Barbieri has always been one of the most overtly emotional tenor sax soloists on record, occasionally driving the voltage ever higher with impulsive vocal cheerleading.
Though Barbieri's family included several musicians, he did not take up an instrument until the age of 12 when a hearing of Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time" encouraged him to study the clarinet. Upon moving to Buenos Aires in 1947, he continued private music lessons, picked up the alto sax, and by 1953 had become a prominent national musician through exposure in the Schifrin orchestra. Later in the '50s, Barbieri started leading his own groups, switching to tenor sax. After moving to Rome in 1962 with his Italian-born wife, he met Don Cherry in Paris the following year and, upon joining his group, became heavily absorbed in the jazz avant-garde. Barbieri also played with Mike Mantler's Jazz Composers' Orchestra in the late '60s; you can hear his fierce tone unleashed in the "Hotel Overture" of Carla Bley's epic work "Escalator Over the Hill."
Yet after the turn of the next decade, Barbieri experienced a slow change of heart and began to reincorporate and introduce South American melodies, instruments, harmonies, textures, and rhythm patterns into his music. Albums such as the live El Pampero on Flying Dutchman and the four-part Chapter series on Impulse — the latter of which explored Brazilian and Afro-Cuban rhythms and textures, as well as Argentine — brought Barbieri plenty of acclaim in the jazz world and gained him a following on American college campuses.
However, it was a commercial accident, his sensuous theme and score for the controversial film Last Tango in Paris in 1972, that made Barbieri an international star and a draw at festivals in Montreux, Newport, Bologna, and other locales. A contract with A&M in the U.S. led to a series of softer pop/jazz albums in the late '70s, including the brisk-selling Caliente! He returned to a more intense, rock-influenced, South American-grounded sound in 1981 with the live Gato...Para los Amigos under the aegis of producer Teo Macero, before doubling back to pop/jazz on Apasionado. Yet his profile in the U.S. was diminished later in the decade in the wake of the buttoned-down neo-bop movement.
Beset by triple-bypass surgery and bereavement over the death of his wife, Michelle, who was his closest musical confidant, Barbieri was inactive through much of the 1990s. But he returned to action in 1997, playing with most of his impassioned intensity, if limited in ideas, at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles and recording a somewhat bland album, Que Pasa, for Columbia. Che Corazon followed in 1999.
As the 21st Century opened, Barbieri saw a steady stream of collections and reissues of his work appear. A new album, Shadow of the Cat, appeared from Peak Records in 2002. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi
Title: Priceless Jazz Collection: Gato Barbieri
Artist: Gato Barbieri
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Latin, Pop
Title: Last Tango in Paris : Para Mi Negra - Single
Artist: Gato Barbieri
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Last Tango in Paris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Gato Barbieri
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Gato Barbieri
Artist: Gato Barbieri
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Collections
Title: Latin Jazz: Gems
Genre: Jazz
Title: Latin Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: A&M 50: The Anniversary Collection
Genre: Pop
Title: Jazz Masters: 1970's
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100% Latin
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazzin' the 70'S
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Stevie Wonder Songbook
Genre: Jazz
Title: How Cool Is That Christmas
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: The Colors of Latin Jazz: Musica Romantica
Genre: Jazz
Title: Smooth Jazz Sax - Classics
Genre: Jazz
Title: Afro-Cuban Jazz Grooves
Genre: Jazz
Title: Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz and the Art of Protest
Genre: Jazz
Title: Great Jazz Saxophonists
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Sax Relax
Genre: Jazz
Title: Greatest Jazz Driving Songs
Genre: Jazz
Title: A Tribute to Che Guevara - Hasta Siempre!
Genre: Latin
Title: Great Jazz Saxophonists
Genre: Jazz
Title: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Genre: Jazz
Title: Latin On Impulse!
Title: Priceless Jazz Collection: Sampler
Genre: Jazz
Title: Romantic Music In Movies - Vol. 1
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Cinejazz (Jazz themes from the movies)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Jazz Italiano Vol. 4
Genre: Jazz
Title: Sleep Warm: The Jazz Slumber Project
Genre: Jazz
Title: LRC Jazz Legacy Anthology, Vol. 5: Time Remembered
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best of Afro Cuban Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Argentino All Stars
Genre: Latin
Title: Jazz Italiano Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Italiano Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Groove Revolution
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Jazz Italiano Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Compact Disc Club - Classic Jazz CD 4
Genre: Jazz
Title: Compact Disc Club - Emotions CD 4
Genre: World Music
Title: Sea Of Wine By Costas Georgiadis
Genre: Ambient, Trance, Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz, Rock, Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Classical
Title: Gold Instrumental Songs (2013)
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Omvision Pt. 5 (CD 1)
Genre: Trip Hop, Drum & Bass, Dub, Pop
Title: Playboy Jazz - In A Smooth Groove (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: 1000 Percent Sax Vol. 1 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: 1000 Percent Sax Vol. 1 (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: 1000 Percent Sax Vol. 1 (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: 1000 Percent Sax Vol. 1 (CD4)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Jazz Sax - Verve 50
Genre: Jazz
Title: Autour De Minuit - So Sexy
Genre: Jazz
Title: Super Instrumentals (CD1)
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Super Instrumentals (CD2)
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Super Instrumentals (CD1)
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Super Instrumentals (CD2)
Genre: Instrumental
Title: Romantic Saxophone - 100 Classic Hits (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Instrumental
Title: Dinner Jazz - Verve 50
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Smooth Jazz Cafe Vol. 02
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Romantic Sax Collection Vol V
Genre: Jazz, Instrumental
Title: Jazz District - Smooth Jazz (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Verve Impressions: Saxes
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz District Latin Jazz
Title: Hit Parade VI
Genre: Pop
Title: La Boîte Noire De Radio Nova 1972
Genre: Rock, Reggae, Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk
Featuring albums
Title: Live At Café Montmartre, Vol. 3 / Live At Cafe Montmartre, Vol. 3
Artist: Don Cherry
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Artist: Michael Mantler, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Genre: Jazz
Title: Ritmo de la Noche/Rhythm Of The Night - The Very Best Of Latin Jazz
Artist: Various
Genre: Jazz
Title: Eat, Pray, Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Da sansiro a samarcanda
Artist: Antonello Venditti
Genre: World Music, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Lounge Music Session: Greatest Italian Movie Themes, Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Lounge
Title: Lounge Music: The Soundtrack Collection Vol. 2
Artist: Bacci
Title: Romantic Soundtracks - Love Themes Collection Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop, Lounge, Easy Listening
Title: Christmas Time - The Best of Italian Music, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Lounge, Easy Listening
Title: Music in Love - Italian Music Love Songs
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Winter's Tale Movies Collection, Vol.1
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop, Lounge, Easy Listening
Title: Lounge Cinema Collection, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Lounge, Easy Listening
Title: 80 Años - Jazztaríaenbaterita / 80 Anos - Jazztariaenbaterita
Artist: Nestor Astarita
Genre: Jazz