Standards Rican-ditioned
Released: Aug 14, 2006
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Released: Aug 14, 2006
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This was Ray Barretto's last album, recorded exactly a month before he suffered a heart attack that contributed to his death in Feb. 2006. Sadly, it would also be one of pianist Hilton Ruiz's final...
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A Man and His Music
Released: May 23, 2006
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Released: May 23, 2006
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Produced only a short time after his death, Ray Barretto's A Man and His Music tells the story of a young conguero who went from sitting in on New York's after-hours jam sessions to becoming a...
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Time Was - Time Is
Released: Sep 13, 2005
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Released: Sep 13, 2005
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On Time Was - Time Is, veteran conguero Ray Barretto and his Latin jazz sextet (with percussionist Bobby Sanabria guesting on four songs) are in ways the Art Blakey Jazz Messengers of Afro-Cuban...
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Fuerza Gigante: Live in Puerto Rico April 27, 2001
Released: Jun 15, 2004
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Released: Jun 15, 2004
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Ray Barretto's concert in Puerto Rico's Tito Puente Auditorium on April 27, 2001 would prove the conguero's farewell to salsa. After decades of dual residency in both the worlds of salsa and Latin...
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Hot Hands
Released: Sep 23, 2003
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Released: Sep 23, 2003
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Concord Jazz did a smashing job on Hot Hands of reissuing two stellar yet under-the-radar Latin jazz albums by Ray Barretto's New World Spirit ensemble of the 1990s. Hot Hands consists of Ancestral...
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Homage to Art
Released: Apr 1, 2003
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Released: Apr 1, 2003
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Where does one go from the top? Ray Barretto through his years collaborating with the most important names in jazz and giving some of Salsa's most notable musicians their start has become the most...
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