Gato Barbieri

See also: Barbieri

Gato Barbieri , born with Rosario in Argentinian the November 28th 1934, is a Saxophoniste Argentinian tenor .

Wire of a carpenter, violonist amateur, he discovers the tenor near an uncle saxophonist then the Jazz by listening to Charlie Parker in 1944. II begins on the requinto (small Clarinette). Five years of private lessons of Clarinet to Buenos Aires, but it also approaches the Alto saxophone and the composition.

II cheek in the orchestra of Lalo Schifrin in 1953 and chooses the tenor in 1955. In 1962, after a few months with the Brazil, it settles with Rome and is quickly made know like sideman (with Jim Hall, Ted Curson). II meeting with Paris, in 1965, Gift Cherry and follows it to New York to record at Blue Note “Supplements communion” (1965) and “Symphony for improvisers” (1966).

Meanwhile, in Milan, it takes part in Nuovi Sentimenti of Giorgio Gaslini. In 1967, it records its first two discs under its name ( In search off the mystery and Obsession ). II participle after “has genuine Tong Funeral” written for Gary Burton by Carla Bley and collaborates with this one: “Escalator over the hill”, “Tropic apatites”, and with the Release Orchestrated Charlie Haden.

Its duets with Dollar Brand (1968) print with its music a decisive turn in direction of its South American origins and, more largely, musics of the third world. Associated with Lonnie Listel Smith until 1973, it directs many formations for Flying Dutchman, where ravel Roswell Rudd, Joe Beck, John Abercrombie, Stanley Clarke, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Ron Carter, Chuck Rainey, Beaver Harris, Lennie White, Roy Haynes, Pretty Purdie, Nana Vasconcellos, Airto Moreira, James Me Tume.

Whereas its triumph with the Festival of Montreux (" El pampero") and its contribution to the band of film “Dernier tango in Paris” (Bernardo Bertolucci) under the direction of Oliver Nelson makes it increasingly popular, it accentuates, as from 1973, the reference to its roots by being surrounded South American musicians, in particular in the series “Chapter one” in “Chapter furnace” for Impulse. Then its production for has & M in particular, was done according to increasingly commercial options within important formations of studio, but far from the jazz and with the profit of an audience much larger.

At the same time marked by the universe coltranien and its profitable collaboration with the trumpet player of Ornette Coleman, Gift Cherry, Gato Barbieri are located in the middle of the problems raised by the evolution of the Free jazz during the Années 1960. All at the same time designer of the stamp, which he abuses with excess, and lyric tried by the expressivity of the cry and the authenticity of the melody, hesitant between vehemence and the pleasure, the illegibility and limpidity, he knew to base his own balance on a rooting in a popular tradition. Just like Dollar Brand or Chris McGregor, it showed the history of the American negro music in example with the popular musics of the third world.

Elements of discography

“Supplements communion” (Gift Cherry, 1965)
“Hamba Khale” (with Dollar Brand, 1968)
“Escalator over the hill (Carla Bley, 1968),” (1969),
“Under fire”,
“El pampero” (1971)
“Fenix” (1971)
“Chapter two: Hasta siempre” (1973)
“Chapter furnace: Emiliano Zapata” (1975).

External bonds

the discography of Gato Barbieri (Music City)

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