Jazz saxophonist, composer Gato Barbieri is dead

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Jazz saxophonist, composer Gato Barbieri is dead at 83
Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, a jazz saxophonist and bandleader who won an Oscar for his soundtrack to Last Tango in Paris, died in New York City on Saturday, his wife, Laura Barbieri confirmed Sunday. He was 83, and the cause of death was pneumonia. Barbieri, born in Argentina in 1932, picked up the clarinet and then saxophone at age 12 after he heard Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time," and his musical career progressed from big band to free jazz to Latin jazz in the late-1960s. His last of roughly 40 albums, 2010's New York Meeting, was straight-ahead jazz versions of some favorite standards.
Barbieri got the name "El Gato" (the cat) in Buenos Aires in the late 1950s, because of the way he ran from club to club with his saxophone. He was awarded a lifetime achievement Latin Grammy in 2015 for having covered "virtually the entire jazz landscape" over his long career, creating "a rebellious but highly accessible musical style, combining contemporary jazz with Latin American genres and incorporating elements of instrumental pop."
It was his Latin sound and Argentine roots that drew director Bernardo Bertolucci to approach him for the soundtrack to the 1972 erotic Marlon Brando film Last Tango. "Always in the tango is tragedy — she leaves him, she kills him. It's like an opera but it's called tango," Barbieri told The Associated Press in 1997.   Peter Weber  
from http://theweek.com

Edited by snobb - 04 Apr 2016 at 7:53am

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	Jazz saxophonist, composer Gato Barbieri is dead at 83 Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, a jazz saxophonist and bandleader who won an Oscar for his soundtrack to Last Tango in Paris, died in New York City on Saturday, his wife, Laura Barbieri confirmed Sunday. He was 83, and the cause of death was pneumonia. Barbieri, born in Argentina in 1932, picked up the clarinet and then saxophone at age 12 after he heard Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time," and his musical career progressed from big band to free jazz to Latin jazz in the late-1960s. His last of roughly 40 albums, 2010's New York Meeting, was straight-ahead jazz versions of some favorite standards. Barbieri got the name "El Gato" (the cat) in Buenos Aires in the late 1950s, because of the way he ran from club to club with his saxophone. He was awarded a lifetime achievement Latin Grammy in 2015 for having covered "virtually the entire jazz landscape" over his long career, creating "a rebellious but highly accessible musical style, combining contemporary jazz with Latin American genres and incorporating elements of instrumental pop." It was his Latin sound and Argentine roots that drew director Bernardo Bertolucci to approach him for the soundtrack to the 1972 erotic Marlon Brando film Last Tango. "Always in the tango is tragedy — she leaves him, she kills him. It's like an opera but it's called tango," Barbieri told The Associated Press in 1997. `Peter Weber` from http://theweek.com Edited by snobb - 04 Apr 2016 at 7:53am

Splanky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2016 Location: Philadelphia PA Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote Splanky Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 2016 at 6:30pm
	He will be missed. I will listen to Don Cherry's Complete Communion in honor of Gato.
	Scott W. Weaver www.splankyradio.com

Splanky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2016 Location: Philadelphia PA Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote Splanky Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 2016 at 6:36pm
	I hope this works this time:
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