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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGato Barbieri, Latin Jazz Great and 'Last Tango in Paris' Composer, Dead at 83
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gato-barbieri-latin-jazz-great-and-last-tango-in-paris-composer-dead-at-83-20160403
Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, the influential Latin jazz bandleader and saxophonist best known for his Grammy-winning score to the film Last Tango in Paris, died Saturday at a New York hospital following a bout with pneumonia. He was 83. Barbieri's wife Laura confirmed her husband's death to The Associated Press, adding that he also recently underwent bypass surgery to remove a blood clot.
"Music was a mystery to Gato, and each time he played was a new experience for him, and he wanted it to be that way for his audience. He was honored for all the years he had a chance to bring his music all around the world," Laura Barbieri said. In 2015, Barbieri was awarded a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his musical contributions.
Born in Argentina in 1932, Barbieri broke into the American jazz world as part of fellow Argentine Lalo Schifrin's orchestra before immersing himself in the free jazz movement pioneered by Ornette Coleman; in the late Sixties, Barbieri worked primarily in the quartet led by trumpeter Don Cherry, another Coleman disciple.
In the Seventies, Barbieri shifted his sound toward the Latin jazz previously mined by Charlie Parker, the jazz great who first inspired Barbieri to learn his instrument, as well as the native music of his South American roots. That blending of styles led director Bernardo Bertolucci to recruit Barbieri to compose the score for his controversial 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.
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Gato Barbieri, Latin Jazz Great and 'Last Tango in Paris' Composer, Dead at 83 (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Apr 2016
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xfundy
(5,105 posts)1. Great artist.
He will be missed.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)2. Oh No !! May he RIP n/t
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)3. I Love his music
RIP
shenmue
(38,506 posts)4. Rest in peace