Ray Obeido

Ray Obeido: Sticks and Stones

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1997

Now, here is a much underrated artist -- Ray Obeido, who has a handful of truly excellent albums out on Windmill Jazz. Sticks and Stones is a mixture of that wonderful Lee Ritenour sound from his Rio Funk album from the 1980s.

Ray Obeido teams up with the Carribean Project man Andy Narell to offer us a delightful smooth summer album full of instrumentation and percussion. In some parts it suggests early Steps Ahead with Mike Manieri, Eliane Elias, Eddie ...