Gato Barbieri
Leandro Barbieri
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Emerging from an Argentine family of musicians, Barbieri first took up the clarinet after hearing Charlie Parker, later switching to alto saxophone and honing his craft alongside pianist Lalo Schifrin before moving to Rome where he collaborated with trumpeter Don Cherry and absorbed the free-jazz language of John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders. His breakthrough arrived with a Grammy…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources