Ray Barretto

September 24, 2020

1977 Ray Barretto – Eye Of The Beholder

Joe Sample, Pete Christlieb, Ray Barretto, Steve Ferrone, Wilton Felder

Eye Of The Beholder is the 26th album by Ray Barretto, released in 1977 on Atlantic. Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz. […]

October 6, 2017

1978 Ray Barretto – Can You Feel It

Neil Stubenhaus, Ray Barretto

Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American Grammy Award-winning Latin jazz percussionist. Barretto (his real name,”Barreto”, was misspelled on his birth certificate) was born in New York City. His parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the early 1920s, looking for a better life. He was raised in […]