Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of

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styles, as well as

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. His first hit, "El Watusi," was recorded by his Charanga Moderna in 1962, becoming the most successful pachanga song in the United States. In the late 1960s, Barretto became one of the leading exponents of boogaloo and what would later be known as salsa. Nonetheless, many of Barretto's recordings would remain rooted in more traditional genres such as

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. A master of the

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(improvised jam session), Barretto was a long-time member of the Fania All-Stars. His success continued into the 1970s with songs such as "Cocinando" and "Indestructible." His last album for Fania Records, ''Soy dichoso'', was released in 1990. He then formed the New World Spirit jazz ensemble and continued to tour and record until his death in 2006.

Life and career

Early years

Barretto was born on April 29, 1929, in New York City. His parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the early 1920s, looking for a better life. His father left their family when Barretto was four, and his mother Delores moved the family to the

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, and from a young age he was influenced by his mother's love of music and by the

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and

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. In 1946, when Barretto was 17 years old, he joined the

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. While stationed in Germany, he met Belgian vibraphonist Fats Sadi. However, it was when he heard Dizzy Gillespie's " Manteca" with Gil Fuller and Chano Pozo that he realized his calling.

Beginnings as a sideman

In 1949, when Barretto returned home from military service, he started to visit clubs and participated in jam sessions, where he perfected his

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playing. On one occasion

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heard Barretto play and invited him to play in his band. Later, he was asked to play for

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and Tito Puente, for whom he played for four years. It was in 1958, while playing for Puente, that Barretto received his first recording credit. Barretto developed a unique style of playing the conga and soon he was sought by other jazz band leaders. Latin percussionists started to appear in jazz groups with frequency as a consequence of Barretto's musical influence.

Charanga Moderna and rise to fame

In 1960, Barretto was a house musician for the Prestige, Blue Note, and Riverside labels. He also recorded on

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with Jazz flautist

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. New York had become the center of Latin music in the

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and a musical genre called pachanga was the Latin music craze of the early 1960s. In 1962, Barretto formed his first group, Charanga La Moderna, and recorded his first hit, "El Watusi" for

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. He was quite successful with the song and the genre, to the point of being typecast (something that he disliked).

Boogaloo and early salsa

In 1965, Barretto signed with the Latin division of

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, UA Latino, and began recording a series of albums in the boogaloo genre, which merges

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with

. On his album ''El Ray Criollo'', Barretto explored the modern Latin sounds of New York, combining features of charanga and conjunto to birth a new style which would later be known as salsa. After recording four albums for the United Artists label, Barretto joined the Fania record label in 1967, and his first recording for the new label was the 1968 album ''Acid'', which is often cited as one of the most enduring boogaloo albums, with songs such as "A Deeper Shade of Soul" and the title track was included in the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the fictitious Latin music radio station "Radio Espantoso". During this period,

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was the band's lead vocalist.

Success with Fania

In 1972 Barretto's ''Que viva la música'' was released. "Cocinando," a track from the album, opened the soundtrack of the Fania All Stars film ''

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'' in which Barretto had a role. After a number of successful albums, and just as his Afro-Cuban band had attained a remarkable following, most of its members left it to form Típica 73, a multinational salsa conglomerate. In 1973, Barretto recorded the album ''Indestructible'', in which he played "La familia", a song written by José Curbelo in 1953 and recorded by the sonero Carlos Argentino with the Cuban band Sonora Matancera;

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joined as new vocalist. Allen left the band after "Indestructible". The series of departures left Barretto depressed and disappointed with salsa; he then redirected his efforts to jazz, while remaining as musical director of the Fania All Stars. In 1975 he released ''Barretto'', also referred to as the ''Guararé'' album, with new vocalists Ruben Blades and Tito Gomez. Barretto played the conga in recording sessions for the

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. In 1975, he was nominated for a

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for the album "Barretto". From 1976 to 1978, Barretto recorded three records for Atlantic Records, and was nominated for a Grammy for ''Barretto Live...Tomorrow''. In 1979, he recorded ''La Cuna'' for CTI records and produced a salsa record for Fania, titled ''Rican/Struction'', which was named 1980 "Best Album" by Latin N.Y. Magazine, with Barretto crowned as Conga Player of the Year.

New World Spirit

In 1990, Barretto won his first Grammy for the album ''Ritmo en el corazón'' ("Rhythm in the Heart"), which featured the vocals of Celia Cruz. His 1968 song "A Deeper Shade Of Soul" was sampled for the 1991 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 #21 hit " Deeper Shade of Soul" by Dutch band Urban Dance Squad. Also in the 1990s, a Latin agent, Chino Rodríguez, approached Barretto with a concept he also pitched to Larry Harlow. The idea was "The Latin Legends of Fania", and Barretto, Harlow, Yomo Toro, Pete "el Conde" Rodríguez, Junior González, Ismael Miranda, and Adalberto Santiago came together and formed "The Latin Legends of Fania", booked by Chino Rodríguez of Latin Music Booking.com. However, in 1992 Barretto left the Legends to focus on his new jazz ensemble, New World Spirits, with which he recorded several albums for the Concord Jazz label. In 1999, Barretto was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame. In 2006, the

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awarded Barretto its Jazz Masters Award. Barretto lived in New York and was an active musical producer, as well as the leader of a touring band which embarked on tours of the

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Death

A resident of

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and complications of multiple health issues on February 17, 2006, at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. His body was flown to Puerto Rico, where Barretto was given formal honors by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture; his remains were cremated.

Discography

As leader

* ''Barretto para bailar'' ( Riverside, 1961) * ''Latino!'' (Riverside, 1962) * ''Charanga Moderna'' ( Tico, 1962) * ''Moderna de Siempre'' (Tico, 1963) * ''On Fire Again (Encendido otra vez)'' (Tico, 1963) * ''The Big Hits Latin Style'' (Tico, 1963) * ''Guajira y guaguancó'' (Tico, 1964) * ''Viva Watusi!'' (

, 1965) * ''Señor 007'' (United Artists, 1966) * ''El Ray Criollo'' (United Artists, 1966) * ''Latino con Soul'' (United Artists, 1966) * ''Fiesta En El Barrio'' (United Artists, 1967) * ''Acid'' ( Fania, 1968) * ''Hard Hands'' (Fania, 1968) * ''Together'' (Fania, 1969) * ''Head Sounds'' (Fania, 1969) * ''Barretto Power'' (Fania, 1970) * ''The Message'' (Fania, 1971) * ''From the Beginning'' (Fania, 1971) * ''Que viva la música'' (Fania, 1972) * ''Indestructible'' (Fania, 1973) * ''The Other Road'' (Fania, 1973) * ''Barretto'' (Fania, 1975) * ''Tomorrow: Barretto Live'' (

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, 1976) * ''Energy to Burn'' (Fania, 1977) * ''Eye of the Beholder'' (Atlantic, 1977) * ''Can You Feel It?'' (Atlantic, 1978) * ''Gracias'' (Fania, 1978) * ''La Cuna'' (CTI Records/CTI, 1979) * ''Rican/Struction'' (Fania, 1979) * ''Giant Force'' (Fania, 1980) * ''Rhythm of Life'' (Fania, 1982) * ''Todo se va poder'' (Fania, 1984) * ''Aquí se puede'' (Fania, 1987) * ''Irresistible'' (Fania, 1989) * ''Ritmo en el Corazón'' (Fania, 1990) * ''Handprints'' (Concord Picante, 1991) * ''Soy Dichoso'' (Fania, 1992) * ''Live in New York'' (Messidor, 1992) * ''Salsa Caliente de Nu York'' (Universe, 2001) * ''Fuerza Gigante: Live in Puerto Rico April 27, 2001'' (Universe, 2004) * ''Standards Rican-ditioned'' ( Zoho Music, 2006) With New World Spirit * ''Ancestral Messages'' (Concord Picante, 1992) * ''Taboo'' (Concord Picante, 1994) * ''My Summertime'' (Owl, 1995) * '' Contact!'' (Blue Note, 1998) * ''Portraits in Jazz and Clave'' (RCA, 2000) * ''Trancedance'' (Circular Moves, 2001) * ''Homage to Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers'' (Sunnyside, 2003) * ''Hot Hands'' (Concord Picante, 2003) * ''Time Was - Time Is'' (O+ Music, 2005)

As sideman

With

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* '' Blue Gene'' ( Prestige, 1958) * '' Boss Tenor'' (Prestige, 1960) * '' Up Tight!'' (Prestige, 1961) * '' Boss Soul!'' (Prestige, 1961) * '' Twisting the Jug'' (Prestige, 1961) with Joe Newman and Jack McDuff * '' Soul Summit Vol. 2'' (Prestige, 1961 962 * '' Late Hour Special'' (Prestige, 1961

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* '' Velvet Soul'' (Prestige, 1961

* '' Goodbye'' (Prestige, 1974) With

* '' Main Course'' (RSO, 1975) With

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* '' Dancing the Big Twist'' (

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, 1961) With

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'' (Moodsville, 1962) with

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* '' Midnight Blue'' ( Blue Note, 1963) * '' Crash!'' (Prestige, 1963) with Brother Jack McDuff * ''

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'' (Prestige, 1964) * '' God Bless the Child'' (CTI, 1971) With Arnett Cobb * ''

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'' (Prestige, 1959) With Billy Cobham * ''

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* '' The Other Side of Abbey Road'' (A&M Records, 1970) With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis * ''

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'' (Prestige, 1959) with

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'' (CTI, 1972) With

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*'' Doggett Beat for Dancing Feet'' (King, 1957) With

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* '' True Stories and Other Dreams'' (Elektra Records, 1973) With Lou Donaldson * ''

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'' (Blue Note, 1958) * ''

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'' (Blue Note, 1964) With Art Farmer * ''

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* '' Stitt Meets Brother Jack'' (Prestige, 1962) with Jack McDuff * ''

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Cal Tjader Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. ( ; July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin Jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform music of Afro-Jazz, ...

* ''Along Comes Cal'' (Verve, 1967) * ''Hip Vibrations'' (Verve, 1967) With

Julius Watkins Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) was an American jazz musician who played French horn. Described by AllMusic as "virtually the father of the jazz French horn", Watkins won the '' Down Beat'' critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for M ...

* '' French Horns for My Lady'' (

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* '' Mysterious Traveller'' (Columbia, 1974) With

Frank Wess Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. In addition to his extensive solo work, Wess is remembered for his time in Count Basie's band from the early 1950s into the 1960s. Critic ...

* '' Southern Comfort'' (Prestige, 1962) With Charles Williams * '' Stickball'' ( Mainstream, 1972)

References

External links

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Life and career

Early years

Beginnings as a sideman

Charanga Moderna and rise to fame

Boogaloo and early salsa

Success with Fania

New World Spirit

Death

Discography

As leader

As sideman

See also

References

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