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Average customer rating: I remember Barretto (The Acid Conga) player!

Best of Ray Barretto Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Charly UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Best of Fania All-Stars Gold Time Was - Time Is Que Pasa: The Best of the Fania All Stars The Best of Willie Colon ASIN: B00020QYXK Release Date: 2004-05-24

Tracks:

1. Soul Drummer - Ray Barretto
2. Fuerza Gigante - Ray Barretto
3. Night in Tunisia - Ray Barretto
4. Al Ver Sus Campos - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
5. Oye la Noticia - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
6. Hard Hands - Ray Barretto
7. Quitate la Mascara - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
8. Hijo de Obatal Ray Barretto, Celia Cruz, Adalberto Santiago
9. Cana y la Plantacion - Ray Barretto
10. Acid - Ray Barretto
11. Adelante Siempre Voy - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
12. Watusi - Ray Barretto
13. Arallue - Ray Barretto
14. Ejes de Mi Carretta - Ray Barretto
15. Flor de los Lindos Campos - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago

Tracks:

1. Indestructible - Tito Allen, Ray Barretto
2. Rhythm of Life - Ray Barretto
3. Tuyo y lo Mio - Ray Barretto
4. Granada - Ray Barretto
5. Mareados - Ray Barretto
6. Boogaloo Con Soul - Ray Barretto
7. Prestame Tu Mujer - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
8. Mirame de Frente - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
9. Llantto de Crocodrilo - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
10. Right On - Ray Barretto
11. Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
12. Dia Sere Feliz - Ray Barretto
13. Piensa en Mi - Ray Barretto
14. Ya Vez - Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago
15. Mi Dedication - Ray Barretto

Customer Reviews:

I remember Barretto (The Acid Conga) player!.......2006-03-30

I personally do not consider this CD his best. He has other albums with better music. Barretto ranks as one of my favorite conga players. On this CD he does not have many conga solos but, the songs are very good. He was one of the first New York Ricans to interpret the Afro-Cuban music in New York, with the hit "El Watusi". To me my favorite albums from him are "Que Viva La Musica" and "Acid/Head Sounds". I still remember him doing a conga duel with Mongo at the Yankee Stadium during the Fania All Stars concert, it was difficult for the crowd to take sides between him and Mongo, these guys really put up a great show that night. The concert had to be cancelled do to an uncontrolled fight between the fans. I also remember him when he came to Miami (1977) to play with Fania All Stars at The Miami Beach Convention Center. The place was packed, and all the Miami Beach residents (Elderly Jews) were amazed at the enormous young Latin crowd. I had a good time seen all my favorite Latin celebrities on stage for the first time. It was a sad day for me when I was informed by my Puerto Rican friends of his recent death. Another good conguero leaves us. +Ray Barretto+ R.I.P

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Acid Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Fania / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hard Hands Rican/Struction Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound, Vol. 5 Vamonos Pa'l Monte Crime Pays ASIN: B000EMGJXQ Release Date: 2006-03-14

Tracks:

1. Nuevo Barretto
2. Mercy, Mercy, Baby
3. Acid
4. Deeper Shade of Soul
5. Soul Drummers
6. Sola Te Dejare
7. Teacher of Love
8. Espiritu Libre

Average customer rating: An all-time classic. Ray and Adalberto at their vey best!!! el disco de la salsa!!!!!! AlbertoEgoavil(Lima-Peru)

Rican/Struction Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Fania / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Acid Indestructible Gold Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound, Vol. 5 Lo Mato ASIN: B000FDEUVC Release Date: 2006-05-23

Tracks:

1. Al Ver Sus Campos
2. DSere Fel
3. Piensa en Mi
4. Ya Vez
5. Adelante Siempre Voy
6. Algo Nuevo
7. Tumbao Africano

Customer Reviews:

An all-time classic. Ray and Adalberto at their vey best!!!.......2006-10-03

No serious salsero should be without this CD as it's simply and undeniably an undisputed all-time classic. This album brought together all of the elements that made the previous Barretto/Santiago collaborations so special but added two very jazzy and experimental numbers ("Algo Nuevo" and "Tumbao Africano"). The great Adalberto Santiago's vocals are glorious and beyond any reproach whatsoever on such immortal masterpieces as "Ya Ves", "Al Ver Sus Campos" and "Algun Dia Sere Feliz". Almost 30 years after its original release this album remains as important and enjoyable as back then and...it's a MUST for your CD collection.

el disco de la salsa!!!!!! AlbertoEgoavil(Lima-Peru).......2006-09-30

Compre en 1979 este disco en LP. Al principio era extrano para miun disco de ese tipo ya quela salsa de NY estaba decayendo y se escuchaba mas la de venezuela o Colombia, pero luego entendi el mensaje: Ray siempre estaba un paso adelante,la salsa ya habia dado todo de si,y esos temas furiosos y con muchos arreglos jazzisticos significaban un aviso de resurgimiento ("reconstruccion"), era salsa de Nueva York!!!,sonido de calle con mucho sabor y sobretodo lo que le apasionaba a Ray: JAZZ. A lo largo de su estadia en Fania, sus discos suenan asi, acordes complejos para el comun del bailador salsero.Ni hablar de Adalberto Santiago, su voz esta intacta ,aun en los dos ultimos conciertos del Carnegie Hall donde los vi el 2003 y 2005.
Este disco refleja la cumbre de la musica y del movimiento llamado Salsa!!,luego de ello ya no hay mas, Se podra hacer mas Latin Jazz pero en Salsa, comenzo la decadencia.

Average customer rating: Zenon, Perdomo, and Glawischnig . . . FM Fernandez

Homage to Art Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Sunny Side ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Trancedance Time Was - Time Is Portraits in Jazz and Clave Hot Hands Listen Here! ASIN: B00008OTTI Release Date: 2003-04-01

Tracks:

1. Close Your Eyes
2. United
3. Sleeping Dancer Sleep On
4. Noise In the Attic
5. Ballade For Buhaina
6. Frere Jacques
7. Buh's Bossa
8. Lester Left Town

Customer Reviews:

Zenon, Perdomo, and Glawischnig . . ........2004-02-25

. . . gearing up for their real work, Zenon's astounding debut, Ceremonial.

Yes, these three (Glawischnig, bass; Perdomo, piano; and Zenon, alto sax) form the band (with brilliant drummer Antonio Sanchez, who doesn't play on this disc) that produced one of the finest examples in the burgeoning Nu Latin-jazz. It's almost ironic that here they find themselves in a band playing music in tribute to a man who helped launch the careers of everyone from Horace Silver to Lee Morgan to Wayne Shorter to Bobby Watson to Wynton Marsalis.

And I certainly don't intend to demean this disc or its esteemed leader by focusing on the younger players. It's just that with Ceremonial we can see that they've so thoroughly absorbed their lessons they've come up something that places them, conceptually, compositionally, sonically, and conversationally way beyond the purview of the music on this disc, enjoyable as it is.

With half the disc being compositions by probably the greatest Messenger, Wayne Shorter, this could just as easily have been called Homage to Wayne--although that lacks the nuance and resonance of Homage to Art, which can be taken in a number of different ways.

I was originally going to dock this disc a half star, on account of I don't generally like tribute discs, and because I originally thought it sounded a little too monochromatic. On repeated listens, I've changed my mind. This is truly a great Latin-jazz disc, right up there with Chucho Valdes's New Conceptions and Babatunde Lea's Soul Pools. Graced by simply wonderful playing throughout, the band rhythmically reconfigures the more and less familiar Shorter tunes in imaginative and very pleasing fashion.

Completely enjoyable, and not to be missed by anyone who fancies Latin jazz, be it Nu or traditional.

FM Fernandez.......2003-04-21

Because of its strong material--by Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, etc.--, and the magnificent and cohesive playing by the band, this is a highlight in Ray Barretto's output. Whether playing Cuban music or jazz, Barretto's bands have always been outstanding, and this recording shows that he continues to be a very fine leader. Highly recommended.

Average customer rating: The salsa king's ealry Afro-Cuban jazz sessions!!! Two of his best albums

Carnaval (Latino!/Pachanga With Barretto) Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Fantasy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Gold Afro Roots Tomorrow: Barretto Live Hot Hands Mongo at the Village Gate ASIN: B000000XF9 Release Date: 1993-03-21

Tracks:

1. Manha De Carnaval (Theme from 'Black Orpheus')
2. Sugar's Delight
3. Exodus
4. Descarga La Moderna
5. Summertime
6. El Negro Y Ray
7. Mira Que Linda
8. Cocinando Suave
9. Pachanga Oriental
10. Barretto En La Tumbadora
11. Cumbamba
12. El Paso
13. Linda Mulata
14. Oye Heck
15. Los Cueros
16. Pachanga Suavecito
17. Ponte Dura
18. Pachanga Para Bailar

Customer Reviews:

The salsa king's ealry Afro-Cuban jazz sessions!!!.......2005-10-22

These two lp's from early in Barretto's career, are perhaphs the finest sessions he ever led. The sidemen all are on FIRE!!! These heated sessions feature mambos, cha cha's(or what we now call salsa). Whatever you want to call it Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa dancing music, or pachanga music, it is party music for dancing, as well as legit jazz for lsitening. exotic percussions by Barretto, and great jazz gorn solos. Entrancing, enhcanting, and fun music. ESSENTIAL salsa and Latin jazz.

Two of his best albums.......2000-09-23

This may be Ray Barrettos "obra maestra" (masterpiece). "Cocinando Suave", the version of "Summertime", and everything else on this CD transcends time and genre.

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Hot Hands Ray Barretto & New World Spirit Manufacturer: Concord Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Acid! Listen Here! Trancedance Homage to Art Contact! ASIN: B0000C2391 Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. New World Spirit
2. Song For Chano
3. Freedom Jazz Dance
4. On A Sunday Afternoon
5. Beautiful Love
6. Killer Joe
7. Aqua Blue (Pour Etienne Et Mario)
8. Gabriela
9. My Latin New York
10. Ancestral Messages

Tracks:

1. Taboo
2. Bomba-Riquen
3. Work Song
4. Cancion De'l Yunque (Song For The Rain Forest)
5. Guaji-Rita
6. 99 Macdougal St.
7. Montuno Blue
8. Brother Tom
9. Lazy Afternoon
10. Effendi

Average customer rating: Very Good Barretto on Fania

The Message Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Fania ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004TW8I

Tracks:

1. Se Traba
2. Con el Cimarron
3. Alma Con Alma
4. Flor de Los Lindos Campos
5. Arrepiete
6. Te Traigo Mi Son
7. O Elefante
8. Seguire Sin So

Customer Reviews:

Very Good Barretto on Fania.......2000-08-24

Ray Barretto's work on Johnny Pacheco's Fania label is some of the best salsa of the late 60's and 70's. This is tough rhythm. Good songs, too. Hard Hands is in the same vein. Get them both.

Incidentally, the sound is very different from the more recent New World Spirit recordings (which are in a Latin Jazz vein).

Average customer rating: Emusica off to a Latin start with Fania catalog THE LATE GREAT RAY BARRETTO A superb tribute to an all-time Salsa legend.

A Que Viva La Musica Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Fania / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: A Man & His Music: The Player Rican/Struction Indestructible Crime Pays Lo Mato ASIN: B000FBHCRS Release Date: 2006-05-23

Tracks:

1. Watusi
2. Bantu
3. 007
4. Do You Dig It
5. Soul Drummers
6. Hard Hands
7. Together
8. Right On
9. Acid
10. Abidjan
11. Power
12. Other Road
13. Lucretia the Cat
14. Cocinando
15. Arrepientete

Tracks:

1. Que Viva la Musica
2. Petola
3. Indestructible
4. Hijo de Obatal
5. Guarare
6. Vale Mas un Guaguanco
7. Ya Vez
8. Tu Propio Dolor
9. Fuerza Gigante
10. Rhythm of Life
11. Manos Duras
12. Prestame Tu Mujer
13. Aguadilla

Customer Reviews:

Emusica off to a Latin start with Fania catalog.......2007-01-23

Fania's catalog has been so mismanaged nay just plain neglected over the past 30 years (i once bought a copy of a willie colon lavoe cd - te mato- and it sounded like total distortion ... there had clearly been a problem with it and yet there it was) I have high hopes that things will improve now that Emusica bought the catalog but this Barretto compilation gives me some cause for concern. I do not understand the philosophy behind this compilation... it seems fania just wanted to include 1 or 2 tracks from each album with no concer for what they were including... Why would you include the same number of tracks (and shorter as they were done earlier) from seminal albums such as Acid, Together and Hard Hands as you would from Barretto's latter day efforts which had nowhere the impact and to these ears sound like more standard fare salsa. In fact the first cd is the one with the different rhythms etc... but they neglected some incredible stuff including some tracks he recorded with fania all stars which he wrote and should have been part of this compilation (i'm thinking of some tracks from the live at the red garter cds).. meanwhile the second cd is mainly post 72 Barretto and most tracks sound fairly similar...It just does not pack the same punch... Since CD1 has 15 minutes empty space and CD2 has another 15 or so they could have easily included more from early era Barretto... The liner notes are pretty shoddy affair with for example in the english notes riverside records honcho orrin keepnews (who anybody that knows anything about music knows who he is) is mispelled orrin keepnuevo as if they did a spellcheck in spanish or something and replaced "news" with "nuevo"...lame...barretto deserves a 100% treatment.. the notes tell us what album the songs come from but provide no dates, session players or anything else!!! the session players deserve better!... silly.. this is the typical mishandling of art by people who traditionally own latin music catalogs.. if they really want to do for fania what blue note did with its back catalog, which is what they've claimed, they got a long way to go.... also, there is no explanation of what happened when barretto's musicians left him around 72 to form their own group Tipica 73.. I give this four stars because the music is just great (although in my opinion too much 70s stantard salsa) and not enough early bugalu etc from the 60s... in fairness i should also say the sound is pretty good with two notable exceptions which are tracks 6 and 10 both coincidentally (not!) from "hard hands" which sound shoddy and buzz.. clearly an inferior source was used for these as they do not sound at all as good as the rest.. they should have just used a mint lp which they could have found on ebay for a bill... as mentioned the song selection is questionable and the liner notes leave a lot to be desired..it just seems like an opportunity was wasted to give barretto the 100% class act compilation he deserves... final quibble: to call this comp "a man and his music" is probably not the right way to go because barretto was very much about jazz too which is not represented here...

THE LATE GREAT RAY BARRETTO.......2007-01-07

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GO OUT AND BUY ALL OF RAY BARRETTO'S ALBUMS, THEN BUY THIS ONE. IT IS A GREAT COMPILATION OF HIS MUSIC FROM THE FANIA AND TICO LABELS. I GUARANTEE YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD!!!!!! LONG LIVE RAY BARETTO!!! SOME OF IT MAY SOUND A BIT DATED (60'S AND 70'S), BUT IT IS GREAT MUSIC NEVERTHELESS.

A superb tribute to an all-time Salsa legend........2006-08-07

The late great Ray Barretto's recordings for the Tico and Fania labels represent an extremely important chapter in the history of Salsa and this compilation offers a fine (if incomplete) overview of his illustrious career. Hopefully, Emusica Records (Fania's new owner) will reissue all of Ray's Tico and Fania CDs. Most of his major hits and trademark tunes are here and no self-serving Barretto fan should be without this great compilation.

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Indestructible Ray Barretto Manufacturer: Fania / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rican/Struction Crime Pays El Gigante del Teclado Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound, Vol. 5 A Que Viva La Musica ASIN: B000ETRCIK Release Date: 2006-04-11

Tracks:

1. Hijo de Obatal
2. Diablo
3. Yo Tengo un Amor
4. Familia
5. Orquesta
6. Llanto de Cocodrilo
7. Ay No
8. Indestructible

Average customer rating: Wind against a blade of grass Beautiful and heartfelt recording. Time Was...is timeless - long live Ray Barretto!

Time Was - Time Is Ray Barretto Manufacturer: O Plus France ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Latin Music | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Listen Here! Best of Ray Barretto Conclave Standards Rican-ditioned And Sammy Walked In ASIN: B00099FV42 Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Drume Negrita
2. Murmullo
3. Mags
4. Motherless Child
5. One For Ray
6. The View From Here
7. Time Was-Time Is
8. Palladium Nights
9. Syracuse
10. Caper For Chris

Customer Reviews:

Wind against a blade of grass.......2006-05-27

A truly superb collection of melodies from Ray Barretto! Ray gave me this CD himself months before his passing, and to this day, I still have not opened it. I had no idea what I was missing for all of these months until I allowed myself to listen to the sample tracks. "Caper for Chris" is without a doubt and in a word, moving! I'm not sure if this means that I will open the CD that Ray gave to me, and I'm sure he's saying, "Papa, knock it off, and open the darn thing!".
For me the TIME spent with Ray while he WAS here IS still special to me, and his music will keep him here with us all.

Beautiful and heartfelt recording........2006-02-22

Intriging and heartfelt. The last time I saw Ray was over the summer performing these songs in concert at City Hall Park in NYC. I was immediatly drawn to the music and bought the album. I must say that it requires quiet and an attentive mind to enjoy these selections. Once those two prerequisites are in place, this is like one of those books that you keep reading again and again. There is always a new angle to be explored.
But, of course, his conga playing is infectious and I'm sure you'll wanna dance and celebrate the legacy of this great jazz master.

Time Was...is timeless - long live Ray Barretto!.......2006-02-21

Sublime, masterful, gorgeous, deeply satisfying...and now sad, too, because it appears that this will be Ray Barretto's final recording, an exclamation point at the end of a brilliant 50-year career. From the extraordinary rendition of "Drume Negrita" which begins the album, to the equally engrossing highlights "Murmullo" and "Palladium Nights," and ending with "Caper for Chris," Barretto is in fine jazzy form here. I'm especially blown away by his amazing version of the gospel standard "Motherless Child," which is as deeply moving as anything in his long and stellar list of recordings. This set is more in the vein of his Latin jazz records, such as "Portraits in Jazz & Clave," than in the tradition of his salsa albums; but Barretto's salsa albums were always jazz-inflected and bursting at the seams with intelligent razor-sharp arrangements, and his jazz was always injected with the propulsion and syncopation that is so important to salsa dancers. Like Duke Ellington and Tito Puente, he never underestimated his audience and found the way to satisfy dancers and jazz fans alike (and I suspect he would have been proud to hear himself compared to Ellington and Puente, two of his biggest inspirations.) Ray will be remembered as one of the all-time greats, and this gem is a fitting final statement from a master musician. Like Ray Barretto himself, Time Was-Time Is is simply timeless.

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