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Born Leandro Barbieri, November 28, 1934, Rosario, Argentina; wife Michelle' nicknamed "Gato", Spanish for cat.

Considered a political activist for the Latin American albums on Impulse! Records. Resided in Argentina, New York and Rome.

He was 83, and the cause of death was pneumonia.

He was 83, and the cause of death was pneumonia.

According to the press biography disseminated with advance copies of Gato Barbieri's Peak Records debut, The Shadow of the Cat, he was nearing 70 at the time.

This article examines the career of Gato Barbieri, a jazz saxophonist from Argentina who relocated to the United States in the s.

Tropico is an album by Gato Barbieri, released in Tracks 1 Poinciana (Song Of The Tree) (Buddy Bernier; Nat Simon) 2 Latin Lady (Gato Barbieri).

Argentine-born jazz saxophonist Leandro Gato Barbieri, who won a Grammy for music in the film Last Tango in Paris, died on Saturday, New York.

Education: Studied clarinet at age 12; private lessons for alto sax, composition and clarinet for five years before switching to tenor sax. Addresses: Record company--Columbia Records, 51 West 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10019.

By combining the experimental jazz styles of the 1960s and his own Latin roots, Gato Barbieri has etched a place for himself in the music world as an individual character well known in Europe and the Americas.

Critics have compared Barbieri with both John Coltrane and his contemporary Pharoah Sanders; but the tenorman would prefer to be likened to the rock group Santana and Motown R&B singer Marvin Gaye instead. "When I play, I try to sing without words," says the man made internationally famous for his score on the con