Ray Barretto News

Saxophonist Steve Slagle is a consummate leader often pegged as a sideman; with a rA©sumA© that includes stints with big band legends like Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton , left-of-center trailblazers like pianist Carla Bley , Latin giants like Ray Barretto and modern day marvels like tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano , it's easy to see why ... (more)

Since at least the 1970s, there has been talk about the synergistic excitement of a true Performing Arts Center in the Civic Center neighborhood, but the reality has always seemed dimmer than the dream.

Long Live Boogaloo captures rare and sometimes underground Latin boogaloo, traditional Cuban music shot up like steroids with James Brown and other hard-driving R&B sounds, which emerged from Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, compiled by producer Bobby Marin for Secret Stash.

Barretto was born on 29 April 1929, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, of Puerto Rican parents.

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.