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Last Tango in Paris, film score
Composed by Gato Barbieri
Performed by Gato and his Orchestra Barbieri
with Gato Barbieri
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Last Tango in Paris, film score Suite
Composed by Gato Barbieri
Performed by Gato and his Orchestra Barbieri
with Gato Barbieri
Editorial Reviews
Steeped in controversy upon its release in 1973, director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris has since been called everything from nonutilitarian pornography to a cinematic masterpiece. Two key elements that Bertolucci utilized to breath life into Tango's nihilistic themes and the dark, obsessive relationship at its core were Marlon Brando's harrowing, largely improvised performance and the erotically charged jazz score of self-taught Latin sax virtuoso Gato Barbieri. While the musician's main theme has become a much-covered jazz standard, it's but a tantalizingly sexy sample of the cross-cultural stylings at work in this masterful score. While Barbieri rerecorded the core of his Tango music in lush, fleshier arrangements for the soundtrack album's initial release, this Ryko edition (nearly twice the length of the original) augments those tracks with a compelling half-hour suite of cues culled directly from the film's scoring sessions. By turns stark and sentimental, erotic and experimental, these previously unreleased cues form a revelatory new "second movement" to Barbieri's hauntingly familiar score. --Jerry McCulley
From Jazziz
Argentine saxophonist Gato Barbieri was fiery in the 1960s, slick in the '70s, and on this soundtrack for Bernardo Bertolucci's ruckus-causing 1973 psychodrama he was cinematic: composing a musical backdrop for the mad tusslings of Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.
Listening to the album now, in this expanded version, the music doesn't wear as well as the memory of it. Without the visuals, Barbieri's main theme becomes awfully banal and repetitive - despite its languid air of doomed romanticism. It's not until the last track of the original LP version, a "jazz waltz" version of the theme, that Gato really takes off, blowing hot over steady percussive surges and a driving bass line. The CD includes substantial bonus material, however: a full suite, with orchestrations by Oliver Nelson, which does a more extensive job of developing the theme.
--- Steve Dollar, JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.
Last Tango In Paris: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
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