Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo tango a Parigi ; French: Le Dernier Tango à Paris ) is a 1972 erotic, drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci . The film stars Marlon Brando , Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud and portrays a recently widowed American who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
The film score was composed by Gato Barbieri , arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson , and the soundtrack album was released on the United Artists label. AllMusic 's Richie Unterberger noted "Although some of the smoky sax solos get a little uncomfortably close to 1970s fusion cliché, Gato Barbieri's score to Bertolucci's 1972 classic is an overall triumph. Suspenseful jazz, melancholy orchestration, and actual tangos fit the film's air of erotic longing, melancholy despair and doomed fate."
This performance was recorded in July 2023 by Hiroyuki Yamamoto (piano), Machiko Nakano (drums) and Iyohei Tada (bass) in Kurashiki , Japan.