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Remembering Ray Barretto

Read "Remembering Ray Barretto" reviewed by AAJ Staff


By David Amram When Ray and I first met and played together in the Fall of 1955 at the Monday night sessions at the 125 club in Harlem, Ray was the only conga player and I was the only French horn player who always showed up. We used to always ...

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Ray Barretto: Time Was - Time Is

Read "Time Was - Time Is" reviewed by Russ Musto


Ray Barretto continues to refine his brand of swinging, Latin-inflected jazz with each succeeding release. On Time Was - Time Is, the venerable conguero leads a polished instrumental ensemble featuring Joe Magnarelli on trumpet and Myron Walden on alto with Robert Rodriguez at the piano and Sean Conly and Vince Cherico on bass and drums.

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Time Was - Time Is

Label: O+ Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Drume Negrita; Murmullo; Mags; Motherless Child; One for Ray; The View from Here; Time Was: Time Is; Palladium Nights; Syracuse; Caper for Chris.

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Ray Barretto: Time Was - Time Is

Read "Time Was - Time Is" reviewed by Jim Santella


The Ray Barretto Sextet delivers. It turns a program of traditional songs and original pieces into a performance of modern jazz designed to inspire. The conguero, who knows about finding rich talent, has put together a stellar ensemble that performs with cohesion, precision, and passion. It's been nearly fifty years since Barretto replaced Mongo ...

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Acid / Head Sounds

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2003

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Homage to Art: Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Close Your Eyes (B. Petkere) 2. United (W. Shorter) 3. Sleeping Dancer Sleep On (W. Shorter) 4. Noise in the Attic (W. Shorter) 5. Ballade for Buhaina (J. Bailey) 6. Fr

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Ray Barretto: Acid

Read "Ray Barretto: Acid" reviewed by John Ballon


By the time 1968 rolled around, Ray Barretto was a celebrated studio session player whose hard-driving conga rhythms could be heard all over the records of Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Cannonball Adderley, and countless others. Once he dropped Acid onto the music world, Barretto firmly established a reputation for himself as an innovator in his own ...

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Ray Barretto: Homage to Art: Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Read "Homage to Art: Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Quick and to the Point: Old sages die like they play: hard... very hard.... Art Blakey bolstered his musical cause by endlessly refreshing his Jazz Messengers with youthful, eager, and determined virtuosi carefully embedded amongst old hands. Ray Barretto, whose early professional path shared saunters with Blakey, implements a similar strategy to ever-growing and ...

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Trancedance

Label: Circular Moves
Released: 2002
Track listing: Renewal; Hi-Fly; Trancedance; Para Que Niegas; I Remember Tito; Sunset/OnThe Trail (From The Grand Canyon Suite); Round About Midnight; Iberian Interlude; Fever.

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Homage To Art

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 2002


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