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 ...

As of this writing, it has been more than 20 years since we lost the great conguero Ray Barretto. A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Barretto was among the first musicians to bring the conga ...

Few humans have emanated a look of pure joy like Ray Barretto sitting at the congas. Captured in photographs, his mane fro’ed out, head tilted back with a devotional expression, his grin convulsed ...

At a time when the term “Latin jazz” has become inclusive enough to embrace everything from salsa to son, from stirring dance rhythms to call-and-response vocals, it’s always a pleasure to hear the ...

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 ...

Thousands of Puerto Ricans danced to the beat of conga drums on Friday at a memorial for Ray Barretto, a world-famous percussionist known for integrating the conga drum into jazz. Musicians Ismael ...

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 ...

FLANKED BY HIS beloved conga drums, Ray Barretto was fondly recalled yesterday as a giant of Latin music who fused the worlds of jazz and salsa. “Ray was good, always – good as a person and good as a ...

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 ...