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	Ray Barretto - Biography - AOL Music
		While Ray Barretto's congas have graced more recording sessions than virtually any other conguero of his time, he has also led some refreshingly progressive Latin jazz bands over the decades.
		This no doubt reflects Barretto's wide range of musical interests and also the fact that he came to Latin music from jazz, rather than the usual vice versa route for Latin-descended musicians.
		Barretto made his debut as a leader for Riverside in 1962 and scored a crossover hit (number 17 on the pop charts) the following year on Tico with "El Watusi" (in tandem with a dance craze of the time).
	music.aol.com /artist/ray-barretto/3204/biography (457 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Ray Barretto
		Barretto's mother Delores was a financially strapped Puerto Rican immigrant determined to make a better life for her children.
		While she attended night school to study English, Ray and his siblings were glued to the radio, listening to jazz.
		Barretto and his family were no exception, as they were legally forced to move constantly from one home to another.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/barretto.html (844 words)

	Drummerworld: Ray Barretto
		This final CD recording shows Ray Barretto and his all-star band at the absolute peak of his and their creative powers.
		Ray Barretto, one of the most profilic and influental Latin percussionists in the history of modern jazz, makes an invaluable addition to his extensive recording legacy with the release of "My Summertime".
		Ray Barretto died on Friday, February 17, 2006 at a New Jersey hospital, a family spokesman said.
	www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Ray_Barretto.html (540 words)

	Music: Ray Barretto (Austin Chronicle . 06-15-98)
		Ray Barretto has not only witnessed momentous musical change in his lifetime, he has been at the center of it.
		At 17, Barretto joined the Army to get away from the poverty of the ghetto, and it was there that he became aware of the bop revolution, partly through his association with Belgian vibist Fats Sadi, who was working in Germany when Barretto was stationed there.
		Barretto, however, had developed a unique swing style that he used in jazz contexts, and his work was very well received; so well, in fact, that he was soon recording with a number of name jazz men, including Lou Donaldson, Gene Ammons, and Wes Montgomery.
	weeklywire.com /ww/06-15-98/austin_music_feature2.html (1547 words)

	MP3.com: Latin great Ray Barretto dies
		Barretto, regarded as one of the leaders of the Latin jazz movement that took shape in New York City in the late 1940s and early 1950s, passed away at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, according to a statement from family spokesman George Rivera.
		Barretto, a Puerto Rican who was born and raised in Brooklyn, had undergone quintuple heart bypass surgery in January.
		Barretto was a nearly ubiquitous figure in the Latin jazz scene dominated by the likes of Tito Puente and Dizzy Gillespie, adding the driving salsa beat of the conga drum to the jazz music of that era.
	www.mp3.com /stories/3344.html (479 words)

	soul sides: RAY BARRETTO: HARD HANDS CON SOUL
		Barretto was also part of a larger wave of great percussionists to come out of New York, alongside Tito Puente, Willie Bobo and Sabu Martinez and of that bunch, none was as influential as Barretto in helping to push the Latin soul sound in the 1960s and '70s.
		Barretto's early influences came out of the Latin jazz experimentations of the 1950s, specifically Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" which became one of Barretto's early hits during his years as a studio sessionist and sideman, recording for Blue Note, Riverside and Prestige.
		Barretto's records for Fania were some of the label's firsts, and paved the way for the experimental, probing, but always relentlessly dance-able records to follow.
	soul-sides.com /2006/02/ray-barretto-hard-hands-con-soul.html (1185 words)

	NPR : Ray Barretto: The Beat Goes On
		Barretto remained just a fan until a tour in the U.S. Army took him to Germany, where he started sitting in on congas with fl GIs who were playing jazz at a local club.
		By 1967, Barretto had a solo deal with Fania Records and was at the forefront of a burgeoning music scene that became known as salsa.
		Barretto's latest CD is a tribute to jazz drummer Art Blakey, who was part of the Harlem music scene that embraced the young conga player more than five decades ago.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1432848 (522 words)

	Artists - Barretto, Ray - Music of Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Barretto was born on 29 April 1929, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, of Puerto Rican parents.
		Barretto sat in on jam sessions held at the Orlando, a GI jazz club in Munich, Germany.
		Barretto and Cruz’s second collaboration, Ritmo En El Corazon, released at the end of 1988 and issued in the UK on the Caliente label in 1989, won them a Grammy award in 1990.
	www.musicofpuertorico.com /index.php/artists/ray_barretto (1112 words)

	2006 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships: Ray Barretto
		The most widely recorded conguero in jazz, Ray Barretto was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929 and grew up listening to the music of Puerto Rico and the swing bands of Duke Ellington, Count Basie (JM), and Benny Goodman.
		Barretto was so much in demand that in 1960, he was a house musician for the Prestige, Blue Note, and Riverside record labels.
		Ray Barretto was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1999.
	www.nea.gov /national/jazz/jazz06/barretto.html (443 words)

	World Music Central - A Tribute to Ray Barretto in New York
		The Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet and Bobby Sanabria and Quarteto Ache will be performing a tribute concert to the recently departed Ray Barretto.
		A Tribute to Ray Barretto will be held Friday, June 2nd at 8 pm and Saturday, June 3rd 8 pm at the Pavilion at the Lycian Center, 1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY.
		Ray Barretto, who was a long-time resident of Warwick, New York, died in February at the age of 76.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20060522204613403 (371 words)

	Latin Jazz Network - Artists, Music, Articles, Events, Interviews, Reviews
		After 50 years in the music business Ray Barretto is back where he started, playing his conga drums in a jazz format and loving every minute of it.
		As for Ray Barretto and New World Spirit, they seemed to be having one hell of a good time interpreting the music of the Jazz Messengers.
		Ray Barretto will be 74 by the time you read this.
	www.latinjazznet.com /reviews/ray_barretto.htm (643 words)

	Jazz Police - The King of the Hard Hands, Ray Barretto Dies in Hackensack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For nearly 40 years, conguero and band leader Ray Barretto was one of the leading forces in Latin jazz.
		Born April 29, 1929 in Brooklyn, Barretto is one of the most prolific and influential Latin percussionists in the history of modern jazz.
		Ray Barretto is survived by his wife Annette Rivera, his four children: Chris, Raun, Ray, & Kelly Barretto and four grandchildren: Jullian Barretto, Aja Peters, Arno Peters and Alex Peters.
	www.jazzpolice.com /content/view/5784/117 (847 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ray Barretto, Grammy-winning Latin jazz drummer, dead at 76 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Barretto had undergone heart bypass surgery in January and suffered from pneumonia, said George Rivera, a friend and family spokesman.
		The following year, Barretto was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame, and last month, he was named one of the National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Masters of 2006, the nation's highest jazz honor.
		Barretto grew up in New York City listening to the music of Puerto Rico and to the jazz of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-02-17-barretto-obit_x.htm (268 words)

	The Latin Jazz Network - Profiles - Ray Vega
		Ray was born and raised in The South Bronx.
		Ray balanced both jobs for 2 years, then decided to go full time with Puente due to many scheduling conflicts.
		Ray Vega was the winner of the B.R.I.O. award for music composition in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995.
	www.latinjazznet.com /rayvega (428 words)

	World Music Central - Zoho label set to release Standards Rican-ditioned, Ray Barretto’s Last CD Recording
		In the summer of 2005, Ray Barretto met with Jochen Becker from Zoho in New York City to discuss plans for his next recording.
		Ray possessed a rare live radio broadcast check tape of it — which was carefully transcribed by pianist Hilton Ruiz [Hilton Ruiz is currently in a coma] for the present recording.
		In a particularly inspired choice, Chris decided to incorporate a percussive scat-vocal by Ray which was originally only intended to mark the chorus which Ray himself intended to overdub later with congas, in the final mix of the track.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20060529144043811 (697 words)

	Ray Barretto
		Ray Barretto, one of the most prolific and influentialLatin percussionists in the history of modern jazz, makes an invaluable additionto his extensive recording legacy with the release of "My Summertime".
		A pioneer of the salsa movement, Barretto achieved international superstardom and released nearly two dozen albums with the Fania label from thelate-'60s until salsa's popularity peaked in the mid-1980's.
		They were our baby-sitters!" Although Barretto was attracted to jazz as a child, it wasn't until he joinedthe army and was sent to Germany in 1946 that he realized he was destined to be a musician.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/salsa/artists/barretto.html (374 words)

	Ray Barretto, JVC Jazz Festival 2003
		Ray develops the Latin rhythm on his congas as the drummer features the Latin accents on the crown of the ride cymbal.
		Ray starts on congas then the piano joins in as the tempo slows for dynamic effect.
		Ray Barretto is a world famous musician and showed us why, over and over, tonight.
	www.bboogie.com /Ray_Barretto.htm (922 words)

	Ray Barretto: Homage to Art Blakey
		Brooklyn-born Barretto grew up in the barrios of the Bronx and Spanish Harlem, where he was exposed to the popular music of his Puerto Rican heritage, but like many other young Americans he was also enthralled by the big bands of the Swing era.
		At the age of 17 Barretto enlisted in the army to escape the prejudice and poverty that was all too common to Latinos in New York.
		Barretto asked the group's trumpeter John Bailey to compose a ballad for the date and was rewarded with the beautiful “Ballade for Buhaina”.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=260 (1415 words)

	The passing of Manos Dura - Ray Barretto, Latin Jazz Great
		I had the honor of meeting Ray Barretto on several occasions, the last time being when he was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last year.
		Ray was known as Hard Hands for his percussion playing style, and he was one of the stalwarts of the NY salsa scene, in addition to playing Latin Jazz, which was his first love.
		A Ray le decían Manos Duras debido a la manera que tocaba y fue uno de las personas claves en la onda salsera de Nueva York, además de tocar Jazz Latino, que fue su primer amor.
	www.salsapower.com /editorials/barretto2.htm (737 words)

	APPRECIATION / Ray Barretto fought for Latin jazz to the beat of conga drums
		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.
		While she was away, Ray and his siblings religiously sat by the radio, drinking in the big bands of the time.
		"Ray was a warrior," added Pete Escovedo, who met Barretto in the late 1950s, when he was part of the Tito Puente Orchestra and came out to play at the Sands Ballroom in Oakland.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/22/DDGQNHAQ8V1.DTL (950 words)

	Ray Barretto
		Barretto was born on 29 April 1929, in the Brooklyn borough of
		Noted for his many years as a prominent Latin bandleader, his music career actually began as a studio performer on the conga for jazz recording sessions.
		Barretto sat in on jam sessions held at the Orlando, a GI jazz club in
	latino.si.edu /virtualgallery/Sabor/bios/Featuredbio_Barretto.htm (220 words)

	Ray Barretto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later, he was asked to play for Jose Curbelo and Tito Puente, for whom he played for four years.
		Barretto's 1968 album Acid contained the song "Deeper Shade of Soul", which was sampled for the 1991 US (#21) hit of the same name by Dutch band Urban Dance Squad.
		His body was flown to Puerto Rico, where Barretto was given formal honors by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture; his remains were eventually cremated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ray_Barretto (686 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Latin jazz great Ray Barretto dies
		Ray Barretto, the Latin jazz percussionist credited with introducing the conga drum to jazz, has died at the age of 76.
		Barretto was born in Brooklyn in 1929 of Puerto Rican parents.
		In January, Barretto was named one of the Jazz Masters of 2006 by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/02/18/barretto-obit.html?ref=rss (1405 words)

	Ray Barretto Lost to Second-Hand Smoke
		Born April 29, 1929, in Brooklyn-New York, Barretto is one of the most prolific and influential Latin percussionists in the history of modern jazz.
		In 1990, Barretto finally won a Grammy for the song "Ritmo en el Corazon" (Rhythm in the Heart), which featured the vocals of Celia Cruz.
		Ray Barretto can also be found on basically all the legendary recordings of "The Fania All Stars"
	www.salsaweb.com /articles/ray_barretto_dies.htm (814 words)

	RAY BARRETTO / ACID
		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.
		The title track, "Acid," opens up sparsely with a lazy hypnotic bass and percussion groove over which stretches the muted trumpet sounds of Rene Lopez (who was soon to be drafted and shipped off to Vietnam).
		After a rock-steady timbales solo by Orestes Vilato, the band begins calling out "Barretto, Barretto," and master Ray steps forward, obliging them with one of his most fiery and intense conga solos ever.
	www.musthear.com /reviews/acid.html (284 words)

	CD Baby: RAY BARRETTO: Standards Rican-ditioned
		On Standards Rican-ditioned, the legendary Ray Barretto presents a straight-ahead project with musicians of Puerto Rican descent well versed in jazz.
		Ray Barrettocompleted and approved the mixes of all but the last track, "Strange Music".
		Standards Rican-ditioned stands as a milestone in Ray Barretto's rich five-decade recording career, covering Latin jazz, straight-ahead jazz and salsa in a unique Puerto Rican all-stars format.
	cdbaby.com /cd/barretto (262 words)

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