Ray Barretto, the towering Puerto Rican percussionist who straddled the occasionally conflicting worlds of salsa and Latin jazz during a career that spanned more than half a century, died Friday. He ...

Ray Barretto’s Acid returns on AAA vinyl May 22. Craft Latino brings the boogaloo heat again. Think you are fast enough to grab one? Craft Latino isn’t slowing down and if anything, it’s getting more ...

Cali (Colombia), 21 sep (EFE).Cali (Colombia), 21 sep (EFE). — El salsero puertorriqueño Adalberto Santiago destaca de su carrera la relación con el percusionista Ray Barretto (19292006), de la que ...

Craft Latino, the Latin division of Craft Recordings, is proud to present a 50th anniversary vinyl reissue of Barretto Power, out October 23rd. The album will also be released in hi-res 96/24 and ...

A true jazz giant, Ray Barretto, who died Friday at 76 in New Jersey, made his name playing conga drums on jazz and salsa records since the late 1950s. Today, he will be buried at Riverside Memorial ...

PERCUSSIONIST and bandleader Ray Barretto, one of the pioneers of both the Latin jazz and salsa movements, died yesterday morning in a New Jersey hospital. He was 76. Family spokesman George Rivera ...

Musician Ray Barretto has died at the age of 76. The musician straddled the worlds of jazz and Latin music in a career that spanned almost six decades. Barretto was known for his fearless ...

San Juan, 17 feb (EFEUSA).San Juan, 17 feb (EFEUSA). — Diez años después de su muerte, el músico neoyorquino de origen puertorriqueño Ray Barretto es recordado como uno de los más destacados ...

Ray’s visionary Latin soul charts created deep hits for groove junkies like “Acid” and “Cocinando.” He became a Fania All Star in 1967 and made a string of monumental salsa albums throughout the ’70s ...

When I got the news that Ray Barretto had been taken from us February 17, I cried. And then I went back to the music. Ray was born April 29, 1929, in Brooklyn, then moved with his family at an early ...

This 1973 record from Ray Barretto was a natural response to more or less being abandoned by his once tight-knit jazz players. Barretto transitioned from jazz to salsa and managed to put together a ...