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Name: Gato Barbieri  
   
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Date of Birth: 28th November 1934
   
Place of Birth: Rosario, Argentina
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
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Leandro "Gato" (Or "The Cat" in Spanish) Barbieri born November 28, 1932 is an Argentine-born American jazz tenor saxophonist & composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s & from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s. Born in Rosario to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearing Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time." He played the clarinet, then the alto saxophone while playing with pianist Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, he was in Rome, playing tenor saxophone & later playing with trumpeter Don Cherry. Influenced by John Coltrane's late recordings, as well as those from saxophonists Albert Ayler & Pharoah Sanders, Barbeiri's warm & gritty tone began to form that would become his trademark sound. In the late 1960s, he was fusing the musics from South America into his playing. His music score for the Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris landed him a record deal with Impulse! Records. By the late 1970s, he was with A&M Records, & moving his music towards jazz-pop with albums like "Caliente" (with his best known song, Carlos Santana's Europa) Though he continue to record & perform into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public. He returned to recording & performing in the late 1990s, playing music that would fall into the arena of smooth jazz.

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