Results for "Ray Barretto"

Take Five With Billy Carrion, Jr.

by AAJ Staff
December 4, 2009

Meet Billy Carrion Jr: Billy Carrion Jr started on the alto saxophone at 9 years old. Music of all kinds was always playing at Billy's home by his salsa singing father, who has an amazing career of his own. After being taught how to read, write, and make a sound out of the horn, ...

Roger Rosenberg: Baritone Madness

by John Coltelli
September 11, 2009

It was a late morning in a junior high school located in Long Beach, New York when a lonely, rarely used baritone saxophone chose an adolescent student named Roger Rosenberg as its sole and rightful owner. Moved by his music teachers' offer that whoever was willing to learn the instrument could own it, the youthful student ...

Ray Barretto: Jazz

by Graham L. Flanagan
August 7, 2009

Although both of his parents were full-blooded Puerto Ricans, Ray Barretto was as American as they come. Born in Brooklyn, by the age of seven he had already resided in that borough, as well as Spanish Harlem and the Bronx. His biological lineage, combined with the place he was born and raised, gives new meaning to ...

Papo Vazquez and The Mighty Pirates: Marooned/Aislado: Live at the Painted Bride Art Center

by Elliott Simon
August 2, 2009

Few musicians in Latin jazz have more street cred than trombonist Papo Vazquez. A member of the seminal Fort Apache Band, he has been a part of this music's renaissance both in the US and in Puerto Rico for several decades. He has been at the forefront of producing an Afro-Puerto Rican jazz that leans on ...

Hot House: Hot House: Cuban Tribute to Charlie Parker

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 21, 2009

Over the last year, there have been a number of Latin tribute CD releases, incuding trombonist Conrad Herwig's The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter (Halfnote, 2008). Trumpeter Steven Gluzband's Hot House: Cuban Tribute to Charlie Parker tribute goes right for the “tribute jugular" of jazz with this entertaining, and highly interesting CD. Who better to honor ...

Ray Barretto: Que Viva La Musica, Indestructible & Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 1 & 2

by Russ Musto
January 6, 2008

Ray Barretto Que Viva La Musica Fania 2006 Ray Barretto Indestructible Fania 2006 Fania All-Stars Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 1 Fania 2006

Highlights in Jazz 2008 Season Line Up

January 2, 2008

JACK KLEINSINGER Presents Highlights In JAZZ New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series Highlights In Jazz 2008 Season THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2008 - 8 PM Remembering Ray Barretto featuring Sonny Fortune Dave Valentin Steve Turre Bobby Sanabria

Latin Soul Man

By Ray Barretto

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2007

Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights in Jazz Presents Remembering Ray Barretto Thursday, January 3rd 8PM at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center

December 19, 2007

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2008 - 8 PM Remembering Ray Barretto featuring Sonny Fortune, Dave Valentin, Steve Turre, Bobby Sanabria, Steve Kroon and the Arturo O'Farrill Trio All concerts will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College), 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and West Street). ...

Ban Ban Quere

Featuring the music of Ray Barretto
Duration: 6:30
January 26, 2007