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Gato Barbieri
Leandro Barbieri (born on November 28 1934 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina) better known as El Gato Barbieri (Spanish for "Barbieri the Cat") is an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from 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.
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