Contemporary jazz musicians willing to look further away from the tradition of jazz, will find a whole new signifier in the groundbreaking musical conversation between Jazz music and Latin American native genres (mainly from Argentina), started by composer and saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri (1932-2016). He was a long-time widely acclaimed musician in the European free-jazz style scene by the time he took a decisive cultural turn. His political choice coincided with the onset of civil right movements and a new revolutionary spirit that was rising in Latin America during 1969-1975.The working title of this account about the world’s most successful Argentine-born jazz musician is “The Third World Music Turn”.
Keywords:
Barbieri, jazz, revolution, Latin America, music, 60's/70's
Pujol, S. (2020). Third World in jazz key. Notes for a musical biography of Leandro “Gato” Barbieri. Revista Musical Chilena, 74(233), 13–27. Retrieved from https://rchdt.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/57941
