Styles: Saxophone Jazz, Jazz Fusion
Year: 1977
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:48
Size: 100,6 MB
Art: Front
(6:30) 1. Ruby
(5:26) 2. Nostalgia
(5:03) 3. Latin Reaction
(5:47) 4. Ngiculela/Es Una Historia/I Am Singing
(5:54) 5. Sunride
(4:45) 6. Adios
(5:49) 7. Blue Angel
(4:32) 8. Midnight Tango
Year: 1977
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:48
Size: 100,6 MB
Art: Front
(6:30) 1. Ruby
(5:26) 2. Nostalgia
(5:03) 3. Latin Reaction
(5:47) 4. Ngiculela/Es Una Historia/I Am Singing
(5:54) 5. Sunride
(4:45) 6. Adios
(5:49) 7. Blue Angel
(4:32) 8. Midnight Tango
Leandro Barbieri (28 November 1932 – 2 April 2016), known as Gato Barbieri (Spanish for "the cat" Barbieri), was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of 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 and later the alto saxophone while performing with the Argentinean 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 Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill. His score for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris earned him a Grammy Award and led to a record deal with Impulse! Records. By the mid-70s, he was recording for A&M Records and moved his music towards soul-jazz and jazz-pop. Caliente! (1976) included his best known song, a rendition of Carlos Santana's "Europa". The follow-up album, Ruby Ruby (1977) were both produced by fellow musician and label co-founder, Herb Alpert. Although he continued to record and perform well into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public arena. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s with the soundtrack for the film Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof (1996). The album Qué Pasa (1997) moved more into the style of smooth jazz. Barbieri received the UNICEF Award at the Argentinian Consulate in November 2009. He died on 2 April 2016 in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato_Barbieri
Charming and romantic fit the description of Gato Barbieri and the work he presents here, the album Ruby, Ruby. The production of the record, mastered and engineered handsomely by Herb Alpert, is very lush and beautiful to a lasting degree. Barbieri turns his first song, "Ruby," from an early-on haunting love ballad to an appealing and gripping all-out Latin jam session. This theme happens to find itself playing roles several times over throughout the record. The musicianship explored is captivating and adventurous, taking the listener on a passionate journey to whatever part of the soul he or she wishes to find or dares to pursue. A soaring sound at times, with Barbieri's splendid, racing saxophone melody lines. "Nostalgia" brings the delicate and eloquent guitar work of Lee Ritenour, who also takes part in the creation of "Sunride" and bits of "Ruby." As with most jazz records, percussion is responsible for playing a key role in the inception of the groove and depth of the material. Because of this album's Latin context, Barbieri does a wonderful job inspiring his friends in the rhythm section to come to life. Joe Clayton plays the textured conga on "Latin Reaction," and Lenny White leads a band of fellow passionate drummers, including Paulina da Costa, Steve Gadd, Steve Jordan, and Bernard Purdie. The entire atmosphere of the record changes smoothly in texture and tempo, drifting like a channeling stream from subdued and slow to rampant and passionately loud. Certainly, Barbieri intended it to be a delight of the first degree in the Latin scene, and one listen should win the hearts and minds of the listener. Conjuring up romance and scenes of a starry night in Latin America, this music is the soul of Latin music at its peak in the late '70s. A soothing and ethereal delight, even considering its only weakness: the lack of words and lyrics.~Shawn M.Haney http://www.allmusic.com/album/ruby-ruby-mw0000654493
Personnel: Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone); David Spinozza, Joe Caro (guitar); Eddy Martinez (keyboards); Gary King (bass guitar); Lenny White (drums); Angel "Cachete" Maldonado (percussion).
Additional personnel: Lee Ritenour (guitar); Herb Alpert, Jon Faddis, Alan Rubin, Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm (trumpet); Tom "Bones" Malone, John Gale (French horn); David Taylor , Paul Faulise (trombone); Don Grolnick (organ); Ian Underwood (synthesizer); Eddie Guagua (bass guitar); Steve Gadd (drums); Joe Clayton (conga drum); Paulinho Da Costa, Portinho (percussion); Nadien.
R.I.P.
Born: 28-11-1932/Died: 02-4-2016
Ruby, Ruby
