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Fénix (Gato Barbieri Album)
''Fénix'' is an album by Argentinian jazz composer and saxophonist Gato Barbieri featuring performances recorded in 1971 and first released on the Flying Dutchman Records, Flying Dutchman label. Reception Writing in 1971 for ''The Village Voice'', Robert Christgau referred to ''Fénix'' as "the first jazz I've played frequently for pleasure since ''In a Silent Way''" (1969) by Miles Davis. The AllMusic site awarded the album 4½ stars, stating that "at this point in 1971, well before the Muppets would create a caricature out of him, Barbieri was absolutely smoking, and for a certain style of rhythmic free jazz, this is a captivating album indeed". Track listing # "Tupac Amaru" (Gato Barbieri) - 4:14 # "Carnavalito" (Edmundo Zaldivar) - 9:08 # "Falsa Bahiana" (Geraldo Pereira) - 5:50 # "El Día Que Me Quieras (song), El Día Que Me Quieras" (Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera) - 6:12 # "El Arriero" (Atahualpa Yupanqui) - 7:22 # "Bahia" (Ary Barroso) - 6:22 Personnel *Gato Barbie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gato Barbieri
Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016) was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of the 1970s. His nickname, Gato, is Spanish for "cat". Biography Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearing Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time". He played the clarinet and later the alto saxophone while performing with Argentine pianist Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, while playing in Rome, he also worked with the trumpeter Don Cherry. By now influenced by John Coltrane's late recordings, as well as those from other free jazz saxophonists such as Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders, he began to develop the warm and gritty tone with which he is associated. In the late 1960s, he was fusing music from South America into his playing and contributed to multi-artist projects like Charlie Haden's ''Liberation Music Orchestra'' and Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
