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Zoho Music: Latin Jazz, New York City Style
by C. Michael Bailey
Zoho Music has established itself as the pre-eminent purveyor of Latin jazz. Resurrected from the ashes of the former Khaeon label by Jochen Becker, Zoho boasts a stable of renowned and diverse musicians. Here are three of the best recordings recently released by the label. Ray Barretto Standards Rican-ditioned ...
Remembering Ray Barretto
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 ...
Ray Barretto: Time Was - Time Is
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.
Time Was - Time Is
By Ray Barretto
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.
Ray Barretto: Time Was - Time Is
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 ...
Homage to Art: Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
By Ray Barretto
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
Ray Barretto: Acid
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 ...
Ray Barretto: Homage to Art: Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
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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