Taboo
7/13/2005, AMG
Ray Barretto's Taboo features a new, smaller version of his New World Spirit ensemble. Hector Martignon, who composes along with Barretto, is still here, as are Satoshi...
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Latino Con Soul
7/13/2005, AMG
Firmly in the boogaloo (Latin soul) era, Latino con Soul would be Barretto at his hippest -- except for the pernicious strings. "Eras" is remade with a sappier, poppier...
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Acid
7/13/2005, AMG
Barretto's Latin/soul crossover record of 1968, Acid includes a few tracks of his ebullient, instrumental salsa, but also plays off the boogaloo craze of the past few years...
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Barretto Power
7/13/2005, AMG
Back into a mostly traditional bag by 1972, Ray Barretto served notice that his was the heavyweight band in the salsa scene with this LP. Aside from the devastating...
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Indestructible
7/13/2005, AMG
Originally issued in 1973, this CD reissue has the physical problems of many releases in Fania's catalog -- other than song titles and songwriting credits, there are no...
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La Cuna
7/13/2005, AMG
Producer Creed Taylor has inspired everything from praise to anger among jazz fans. His work has been brilliant at times, detrimental at others (his worst flaw being a...
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My Summertime
7/13/2005, AMG
Ray Barretto (a master of the congas) has effectively fused together bop-oriented jazz with Latin rhythms to form a particularly viable version of Afro-Cuban jazz; he hates...
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Contact!
7/13/2005, AMG
Internationally renowned bandleader, conguero and percussionist, Ray Baretto and his ensemble, New World Spirit, continue their tradition of jazz excellence on Contact!...
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Viva Watusi
7/13/2005, AMG
Viva Watusi! packs a great deal of variety and good ideas. "Greensleeves" actually becomes something entirely different as a hip mambo-rock tune. Unfortunately, the use of...
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Ancestral Messages
7/13/2005, AMG
1992's Ancestral Messages marks a new phase of album for Ray Barretto. Deeply immersed in both Latin jazz and the New York salsa scene, Barretto has issued some of the most...
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Carnaval
7/13/2005, AMG
One of the many budget-priced Fantasy mid-'70s repackages to get a '90s CD issue (rather than simply releasing the original LPs with their original titles and artwork), Ray...
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Fiesta En El Barrio
7/13/2005, AMG
If you wonder (a) why Barretto suddenly has such a hot band, (b) what the two hokey Mexicali cuts are doing mixed in with all the other fine stuff, and (c) why there are...
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Handprints
7/13/2005, AMG
Percussionist Ray Barretto, best-known as a sideman, had a rare chance to lead a session in 1991 and his Concord Picante debut is quite impressive. With saxophonist Steve...
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Portraits In Jazz & Clave
7/13/2005, AMG
In this program of mainly Afro-Cubanized jazz standards, conga man Barretto assembled an all-star group of friends to complement his regular working New World Spirit band....
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