Barretto was born on 29 April 1929, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, of Puerto Rican parents. Noted for his many years as a prominent Latin bandleader, his music career actually began as a ...

Ray Barretto, the towering Puerto Rican percussionist who straddled the occasionally conflicting worlds of salsa and Latin jazz during a career that spanned more than half a century, died Friday. He ...

A true jazz giant, Ray Barretto, who died Friday at 76 in New Jersey, made his name playing conga drums on jazz and salsa records since the late 1950s. Today, he will be buried at Riverside Memorial ...

Cover for Homage to Art Blakey(Sunny Side, 2003) Percussionist Ray Barretto has been playing both jazz and Latin music for more than five decades. In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, NPR's ...

Musician Ray Barretto has died at the age of 76. The musician straddled the worlds of jazz and Latin music in a career that spanned almost six decades. Barretto was known for his fearless ...

Few would argue that a prime place to start in a new or renewed appreciation of Ray Barretto would have to be 1972’s Que Viva La Music, with Craft’s recent 50th Anniversary edition pushing all the ...

When I got the news that Ray Barretto had been taken from us February 17, I cried. And then I went back to the music. Ray was born April 29, 1929, in Brooklyn, then moved with his family at an early ...

Thousands of Puerto Ricans danced to the beat of conga drums on Friday at a memorial for Ray Barretto, a world-famous percussionist known for integrating the conga drum into jazz. Musicians Ismael ...

Ray Barretto, a Grammy-winning Latin jazz percussionist known for integrating the conga drum into jazz, died Friday, officials said. He was 76. Barretto had undergone heart bypass surgery in January ...

Ray’s ashes will be divided and scattered over New York and Puerto Rico–fitting for a man whose double life bridged Latinamericana and jazz. The Barretto family is naming a foundation to help ...