Jazz Articles about Gato Barbieri

Don Cherry: Complete Communion & Symphony For Improvisers Revisited

by Mark Corroto
November 6, 2021

Before his departure, Don Cherry was a kind of Johnny Appleseed for what would eventually be called the “New Thing" in jazz. He can be heard in the midst of the innovative work of Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, Steve Lacy, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai. Cherry's fertilizations changed the sound of creative music then and now. His explorations into (what we now call) world music opened doors for countless non- American musicians to participate in creative improvised music. ...

Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery

by Lyn Horton
January 19, 2010

Argentinean reed man Gato Barbieri began his career in the 1960s, looking to establish a voice that separated him from his native musical language. Having recorded twice in bands led by his mentor, trumpeter Don Cherry, in Paris and with Italian pianist Giorgio Gaslini's large ensemble in Milan prior to this recording, Barbieri decided to go to New York to search for another beginning. In 1967, with a group that included Calo Scott on cello, the late bassist Sirone (née ...

Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mistery

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 14, 2009

Il 15 marzo 1967, quando Leandro “Gato" Barbieri incide le quattro pagine che compongono In Search of the Mystery, egli ha da poco iniziato ad essere oggetto di curiosità nei circoli del jazz d'avanguardia, sia in Europa, dove -proveniente dall'Argentina- ha vissuto alcuni anni, che negli Stati Uniti. Dopo un lungo periodo di gavetta, con collaborazioni fra le più varie, da Lalo Schifrin a Perez Prado, da Giorgio Azzolini a Giorgio Gaslini (Nuovi Sentimenti, una delle opere più rimarchevoli del ...

Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery

by Warren Allen
July 19, 2009

This is not dinner music, nor is it Last Tango in Paris, though there are actually hints of tango flitting around the mix. This is Gato Barbieri with a little extra scream in his step, moving out in the free vein of the '60s avant-garde--loud, brash, unpolished and unapologetic. Showing the influence of his work with Don Cherry, Barbieri brings tons of energy to this 1967 ESP session, which finds him conversing with an unusual sparring partner in Calo Scott, ...

Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery

by Jerry D'Souza
July 7, 2009

Leandro “Gato" Barbieri has traversed a wide range of musical styles over his career. His earliest recordings counted Don Cherry, Abdullah Ibrahim and Roswell Rudd as collaborators. He was quick to settle into the avant-garde before exploring South American music. He later went on to play pop fanned tunes and disco music. Fortunately these commercialized transgressions were not long-lived. His strengths as an improviser and musical thinker continue to establish his credentials.

Barbieri's creative instincts come to life ...

Gato Barbieri: In Search of the Mystery

by Raul d'Gama Rose
July 6, 2009

Gato Barbieri winds up and uncorks a meandering apocalyptic shout that begins with a growling, sinewy tenor and often returns there via a continuous spiral of bell-like primal screeches. He is probing, poking the tones of the tenor and searching madly for a timbral key to unlock a hidden route to harmonic peace. On this seminal recording--In Search of the Mystery--from Stollman's ESP Disk, not even a year after Barbieri's monumental Cafè© Montmartre sessions with Don Cherry, Karl Berger, Aldo ...

Gato Barbieri: Chapter Four: Alive In New York

by Russ Musto
January 28, 2006

The final installment of Gato Barbieri's excellent Latin America series features the fire-breathing Argentinean tenor saxophonist leading a smoking international septet--with Howard Johnson (bass clarinet, flugelhorn and tuba), Eddie Martinez (keyboards), Paul Metzke (electric guitar), Ron Carter (bass), Portinho (drums) and Ray Armando (percussion)--at the Bottom Line back in 1975, a time when jazz was moving in many directions. A post-Coltrane avant gardist with a firm grounding in the tenor saxophone tradition, Barbieri merged the world music of his native ...