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Gato Barbieri is a Actor and Sound Argentin born on 28 november 1932 at Rosario (Argentine)

Gato Barbieri

Gato Barbieri
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Nationality Argentine
Birth 28 november 1932 at Rosario (Argentine)
Death 2 april 2016 (at 83 years)

Leandro Barbieri (born November 28, 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina), known as Gato Barbieri (Spanish for "Barbieri the Cat"), is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.

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 the Argentinean 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, the warm and gritty tone, which would become his trademark sound, began to develop. In the late 1960s, he was fusing music from South America into his playing and contributed to multi-artist projects like Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill. His score for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris earned him a Grammy Award and led to a record deal with Impulse! Records.

By the mid-70s, he was recording for A&M Records and moved his music towards soul-jazz and jazz-pop with albums like Caliente! in 1976 (including his best known song, Carlos Santana's Europa) and the 1977 follow-up, Ruby Ruby, both produced by fellow musician and label co-founder, Herb Alpert.

Although he continued to record and perform well into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public arena. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s with the soundtrack for the film Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof (1996) and the album Qué Pasa (1997), playing music that would fall more into the arena of smooth jazz.

He received the UNICEF Award at the Argentinian Consulate in November 2009.

Best films

Last Tango in Paris (1972)
(Original Music Composer)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gato Barbieri (9 films)

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Actor

Calle 54
Calle 54 (2000)
, 1h45
Directed by Fernando Trueba
Origin Espagne
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Gato Barbieri
Rating73% 3.6878853.6878853.6878853.6878853.687885
Un film présentant les performances de plusieurs stars de la scène musicale Latin Jazz.
Notes Towards an African Orestes, 1h5
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films based on mythology, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Documentary films about films, Autobiographical documentary films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Gato Barbieri, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Roles Self - Musician: Saxophone
Rating66% 3.3492953.3492953.3492953.3492953.349295
En 1969, Pasolini voyage à travers la Tanzanie et l’Ouganda à la recherche des décors et des personnages de son prochain film : une adaptation de L'Orestie" d’Eschyle dans l’Afrique contemporaine. Il commente à voix haute, interroge les visages, les paysages, les situations et lit de larges et significatifs passages d’Eschyle. Il confronte ses idées, ses notes de voyage avec un groupe d’étudiants africains installés à l’université de Rome. Le film ne verra jamais le jour, mais ces notes filmées (et montées) par le cinéaste offrent une médiation sur l’indépendance, les promesses de la démocratie et le passage de l’âge archaïque à la civilisation moderne.

Sound

Strangers Kiss, 1h35
Directed by Matthew Chapman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peter Coyote, Victoria Tennant, Dan Shor, Linda Kerridge, Richard Romanus
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53% 2.669612.669612.669612.669612.66961
To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small film being made by a first-time producer and director duo. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it is made the film turns out well, as does the off-set relationship between the actress and her unknown male lead.
Firepower
Firepower (1979)
, 1h44
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Heist films
Actors Sophia Loren, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Victor Mature, Anthony Franciosa, Vincent Gardenia
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating50% 2.5076652.5076652.5076652.5076652.507665
The FBI hires a former mafia hit man (James Coburn) to track down and bring in a powerful reclusive billionaire suspected of criminal acts for his own benefit. The man also comes into a conflict with a woman (Sophia Loren) tracking down the same crook for revenge reasons.
Notes Towards an African Orestes, 1h5
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films based on mythology, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Documentary films about films, Autobiographical documentary films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Gato Barbieri, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Roles Musician
Rating66% 3.3492953.3492953.3492953.3492953.349295
En 1969, Pasolini voyage à travers la Tanzanie et l’Ouganda à la recherche des décors et des personnages de son prochain film : une adaptation de L'Orestie" d’Eschyle dans l’Afrique contemporaine. Il commente à voix haute, interroge les visages, les paysages, les situations et lit de larges et significatifs passages d’Eschyle. Il confronte ses idées, ses notes de voyage avec un groupe d’étudiants africains installés à l’université de Rome. Le film ne verra jamais le jour, mais ces notes filmées (et montées) par le cinéaste offrent une médiation sur l’indépendance, les promesses de la démocratie et le passage de l’âge archaïque à la civilisation moderne.
Last Tango in Paris, 2h5
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Marie-Hélène Breillat
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69% 3.4506953.4506953.4506953.4506953.450695
Paul (Marlon Brando), a middle-aged American hotel owner mourning his wife's suicide, meets a young, engaged Parisian woman named Jeanne (Maria Schneider) at an apartment that both are interested in renting. Paul takes the apartment after they begin an anonymous sexual relationship there. He insists that neither of them share any personal information, not even given names. The affair continues until one day Jeanne arrives at the apartment and finds that Paul has packed up and left without warning.
El Perseguidor
Genres Drama
Actors Inda Ledesma, Sergio Renán
Roles Music
Rating63% 3.1967453.1967453.1967453.1967453.196745