NEW YORK saxophonist Argentine jazz Leandro cat Barbieri , who composed the music Grammy winner for the film last tango in Paris and recorded dozens of albums in a career spanning more than seven decades, died at age 83.
Laura Barbieri , his wife of nearly 20 years, said her husband died Saturday in a New York hospital as a result of pneumonia. Recently the musician had been heart surgery to remove a blood clot.
“He was my best friend,” Laura said. “I am so grateful that we had these 20 years together”. He said it is planning a public tribute, but not yet the details are refined. “Music was a mystery to the cat and every time he touched was a new experience for him and wanted to be like for your audience,” he said.
jazz recorded about 35 albums between 1967 and 1982, when he stopped making new records systematically. Used touring regularly and still recorded four more albums, including “What” soft jazz that was released in 1997 and reached second place on the list of contemporary jazz chart.
although his health was declining, even with his trademark black fedora hat, he appeared monthly in the Blue Note jazz club New York since 2013. the last time he did it was on 23 November. Last year Barbieri received an award Latin Grammy to its trajectory for a career that spanned “virtually all the jazz scene”.
He credited He has created a rebellious musical style but highly accessible, which combined the contemporary jazz with Latin American genres and incorporated elements of instrumental pop, when he received the award for musical career at the Latin Grammy in 2015.
Barbieri won a Grammy for best instrumental composition in 1973 for his music for last tango in Paris , the controversial erotic drama starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider was nominated for two Oscars.
When the director Bernardo Bertolucci needed sexy music for that film, turned to Barbieri, who was known for its distinctive sensual sound of your tenor saxophone .
“it was like a marriage between film and music,” Barbieri said of the music track that made him an international star in an interview in 1997. “Bernardo said, ‘I do not want the music to be very Hollywood or too European, which is more intellectual. I want a medium ” term ‘
“In the tango is always a tragedy. She leaves him, she kills it’s like an opera but called tango.” Barbieri said, and noted that half of Argentines, including himself, have Italian background. “The lyrics and the melodies are very beautiful. It’s very sensual.”
Born November 28, 1932 in Rosario, Argentina, Barbieri grew up in a family in which there were several musicians, but did not take a instrument until age 12, when he heard the recording Now’s the Time Charlie Parker , pioneer of bebop and began studying the clarinet.
1997 launched What Happens after coping with the loss of his Italian wife of 35 years due to a degenerative disease in January 1995 after heart surgery with a triple bypass coronary two months later.
Barbieri remarried in 1996 and had a son, Christian, who turns 18 on Sunday. Besides him and his wife, he is survived by his sister Raquel Barbieri, who lives in Buenos Aires.
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