Vinyl records

Gato Barbieri vinyl records

19 albums with 450 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Leandro Jose Barbieri. Leandro Barbieri, better known as El Gato Barbieri (Spanish for "Barbieri The Cat") was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Born: November 28, 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. Died: April 2, 2016 in New York, NY, USA. Barbieri rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s. Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearing Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time". He played the clarinet, then switched to the alto saxophone while teaming with pianist/bandleader Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, he played tenor saxophone alongside trumpeter Don Cherry while living in Rome.