Ray Barretto
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Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as
Barretto in 1982
Ray Barretto (left) performing in Deauville, France, in 1991
Midnight Blue is an album by American jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga. It was
Ray Barretto
…started to appear in jazz groups with frequency as a consequence of Barretto's musical influence. In 1963 Barreto played conga on Kenny Burrell's album Midnight Blue, noted by several critics as one of the greatest jazz albums. In 1960, Barretto was a house musician for the Prestige, Blue Note, and Riverside labels…
Midnight blue