RAY BARRETTO LA CUNA LATINO CON SOUL & LA CUNA SEALED LPS + 3 BONUS MINT TITLES

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RAY BARRETTO COLLECTION STARTS WITH 2 SEALED LP'S 

- LATINO CON SOUL WS 4053 STEREO 1975 LATINO RECORDS 

& LA CUNA CTI/KUDU RECORDS 1981 CTI 9002 LIMITED EDITIONS - 

THIS IS A ONE TIME OFFERING AND ONCE SOLD GONE FOREVER AND NONE OF THESE TITLES EVER HAD BARCODE PLACED ON THE JACKETS.

RAY BARRETTO LATINO CON SOUL

Originally released in 1967, this album features Adalberto Santiago in one of his first albums with Ray after singing with Chuito Velez. There are pretty good tracks on here like "El Picor" and the great "Fuego y Pa'Lante" more of Barretto's better known style of salsa.  Don't know who played it since the earlier Polydor release doesn't credit any musicians. Only muisician I'm sure about is Vilato on timbales. Trompeta y Trombon later remade by Fania All Stars is also on this album. Even Boogaloo con Soul is really good. Adalberto has one of the best voices of salsa and this track, even though not of my taste was saved by his singing. Overall, even though it has several boogaloos, very popular music at the time, it is still rather enjoyable for me as a salsero and I'm sure many will agree. A worthy acquisition

RAY BARRETTO LA CUNA CTI/KUDU RECORDS 

An all star crew: Barretto (master conga player and true pioneer); Puente (the king of latin music, best timbalero ever and great musical conductor), Tropea (I always enjoyed his solos in Deodato's albums); Steve Gadd (a kick ass drummer, the white version of Lenny White); Joe Farrell (a fantastic flute and sax player; a classic studio musician who I enjoyed when playing with Corea); and, Charlie Palmieri (a tremendous piano player with identical genes of his brother Eddie). "La Cuna" - spanish for The Cradle. It figures... Great album. Que VIVA Barretto!.

The music on here is just incredible - it ranges from a soft, melancholy ballad, to an uptempo furious set that will leave you drenched in sweat. It also contains an excellent cover of Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" with Willy Torres doing a nice job on vocals. A very uptempo and furious jam session - It's Latin Jazz - and excellent Latin Jazz at that with some of the best Jazz musicians around. With a lineup of Joe Farrell, Tito Puente, Charlie Palmieri, Jeremy Wall, John Tropea, Steve Gadd, and others, this is a classic, period. Enjoy.

PLUS FOR COLLECTORS WE ARE ADDING AS REALLY A FREE BONUS THESE 3 OPEN FANIA RECORDS MINT LP'S

RAY BARRETTO - POWER - FANIA RECORDS RE-ISSUE

A 1968 album with Barretto in midst of his most productive period. He had made inroads into pop and jazz markets and was a dominant figure on the Latin jazz and salsa circuit. The album not only provided the great conga player and percussionist with a nickname, it yielded hit single "Abidjan" and also brought personnel changes. Joseph Roman replaced Rene Lopez on trumpet (he'd been drafted), and Tony Fuentes joined the group on bongos.

Release Date 1968

Duration  35:30

Label:  Fania Records ?– SLP 391

Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue

Country:  US

Genre:  Jazz, Funk / Soul

Style:  Latin Jazz

Making the transition from the ghettos of New York Latin barrios to the heights of the music world requires enormous character. Such is the case of Ray Barretto. Never straying from his roots, he was a great admirer of swing, jam, jazz, and the genres' most noted figures, such as Dizzy Gillespie. He made these genres his own, standing out as a great vocalist. His career took on a new dimension in 1967, when he replaced Mongo Santamaría in the Tito Puente Orchestra, with whom he recorded his first album, "Dance Mania." The album's success would set the stage for his future professional career. Between 1968 and 1975, Barretto recorded a total of nine albums on the Fania label, a label which he helped to create. He was a sensitive artist, open to all musical currents and manifestations, which allowed him to experiment with the many different rhythms he infused with his unique style. The musical legacy of Ray Barretto included a Best Latin Album Grammy in 1989 for "Ritmo en el corazón," which he recorded with Celia Cruz. In 1990, he took a seat of honor in the Salon de Fama for International Latin Music. He was also honored with the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award. These were the most prestigious of the many awards he won over the course of his career. With his death, his life may have ended, but his star shines on more brightly than ever in the musical heavens.

Tracklist

A1           Oye La Noticia                   5:25

A2           Perla Del Sur                      5:40

A3           Right On                               2:40

A4           De Que Te Quejas Tu     4:05

B1           Y Dicen                                 3:54

B2           Quitate La Mascara         4:26

B3           Se Que Volveras               3:45

B4           Power                                   5:59

Credits

Bass – Andy Gonzales*

Bongos – Tony Fuentes

Congas – Ray Barretto

Design – Izzy Sanabria

Piano – Louis Cruz

Producer – Jerry Masucci

Timbales – Orestes Vilato

Trumpet – Papy Roman, Rene Lopez*, Roberto Rodriguez (2)

Vocals – Adalberto Santiago

A 1968 album with Barretto in midst of his most productive period. He had made inroads into pop and jazz markets and was a dominant figure on the Latin jazz and salsa circuit. The album not only provided the great conga player and percussionist with a nickname, it yielded hit single "Abidjan" and also brought personnel changes. Joseph Roman replaced Rene Lopez on trumpet (he'd been drafted), and Tony Fuentes joined the group on bongos.

Release Date 1968

Duration  35:30

Label:  Fania Records ?– SLP 391

Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue

Country:  US

Genre:  Jazz, Funk / Soul

Style:  Latin Jazz

Making the transition from the ghettos of New York Latin barrios to the heights of the music world requires enormous character. Such is the case of Ray Barretto. Never straying from his roots, he was a great admirer of swing, jam, jazz, and the genres' most noted figures, such as Dizzy Gillespie. He made these genres his own, standing out as a great vocalist. His career took on a new dimension in 1967, when he replaced Mongo Santamaría in the Tito Puente Orchestra, with whom he recorded his first album, "Dance Mania." The album's success would set the stage for his future professional career. Between 1968 and 1975, Barretto recorded a total of nine albums on the Fania label, a label which he helped to create. He was a sensitive artist, open to all musical currents and manifestations, which allowed him to experiment with the many different rhythms he infused with his unique style. The musical legacy of Ray Barretto included a Best Latin Album Grammy in 1989 for "Ritmo en el corazón," which he recorded with Celia Cruz. In 1990, he took a seat of honor in the Salon de Fama for International Latin Music. He was also honored with the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award. These were the most prestigious of the many awards he won over the course of his career. With his death, his life may have ended, but his star shines on more brightly than ever in the musical heavens.

Tracklist

A1           Oye La Noticia                   5:25

A2           Perla Del Sur                      5:40

A3           Right On                               2:40

A4           De Que Te Quejas Tu     4:05

B1           Y Dicen                                 3:54

B2           Quitate La Mascara         4:26

B3           Se Que Volveras               3:45

B4           Power                                   5:59

Credits

Bass – Andy Gonzales*

Bongos – Tony Fuentes

Congas – Ray Barretto

Design – Izzy Sanabria

Piano – Louis Cruz

Producer – Jerry Masucci

Timbales – Orestes Vilato

Trumpet – Papy Roman, Rene Lopez*, Roberto Rodriguez (2)

Vocals – Adalberto Santiago

RAY BARRETTO - ACID - FANIA RECORDS RE-ISSUE

Barretto (whose surname is really "Barreto"; a mistake at the time Ray's birth certificate was filed gave his last name its formal spelling) 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 Spanish Harlem and at a very young age was influenced by his mother's love of music and by the jazz music of musicians such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie.[1][2][3]

In 1946, when Barretto was 17 years old, he joined the Army. While stationed in Germany, Barretto met Belgian vibist Fats Sadi, who was working there. However, it was when he heard Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" with Cuban composer/percussionist Chano Pozo that he realized his true calling in life.

Barretto plays for Charlie Parker

In 1949, when Barretto returned home from military service, he started to visit clubs and participated in jam sessions, where he perfected his conga playing. On one occasion Charlie Parker heard Barretto play and invited him to play in his band. Later, he was asked to play for José Curbelo and Tito Puente, for whom he played for four years. 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.[1][2][3]

Success with "El Watusi"

In 1960, Barretto was a house musician for the Prestige, Blue Note, and Riverside labels. He also recorded on Columbia Records with Jazz flautist Herbie Mann. New York had become the center of Latin music in the United States and a musical genre called "pachanga" was the Latin music craze of the time.

In 1961, Barretto recorded his first hit, "El Watusi." He was quite successful with the song and the genre, to the point of being typecast (something that he disliked).[1][2][3]

After recording a number of 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, an experiment joining rhythm and blues with Latin music. The album contained the song "A Deeper Shade Of Soul", which was sampled for the 1991 Billboard Hot 100 #21 hit "Deeper Shade of Soul" by Dutch band Urban Dance Squad.[1][2][3] During this period, Adalberto Santiago was the band's lead vocalist. In 1972 Barretto's Que viva la musica was released. "Cocinando," a track from the album, opened the soundtrack of the Fania All Stars film Our Latin Thing in which Barretto had a role.

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; Tito Allen joined as new vocalist. 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. This 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 Guarare album, with new vocalists Ruben Blades and Tito Gomez.[1][2][3]

Barretto played the conga in recording sessions for the Rolling Stones and the Bee Gees. In 1975, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for the song "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 Ricanstruction, which was named 1980 "Best Album" by Latin N.Y. Magazine, with Barretto crowned as Conga Player of the Year.[1][2][3]

Later years]

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. 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" Rodrguez, 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. In 1999, Barretto was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.[1][2][3]

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 United States, Europe, Israel and Latin America.[1][2][3]

Death

Barretto died of heart failure and complications of multiple health issues on February 17, 2006 at the 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

Genre:  Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul

Style:  Boogaloo, Latin Jazz

Year:  1968

Tracklist

El Nuevo Barretto            6:49

Mercy Mercy Baby          2:42

Acid                                       5:05

Deeper Shade Of Soul   2:42

The Soul Drummers        3:46

Sola Te Dejare                   3:48

Teacher Of Love               2:26

Espiritu Libre                      8:25

RAY BARRETTO - HARD HANDS - FANIA RECORDS RE-ISSUE

Label:  Fania Records ?– SLP 362

Format:  Vinyl, LP, Stereo

Country:  US

Released:  1968

Genre:  Jazz, Latin

Style:  Boogaloo, Latin Jazz, Cha-Cha, Salsa

Tracklist

A1           Hard Hands                         2:50

A2           Abidjan                                4:52

A3           Love Beads                         2:36

A4           Mi Ritmo Te Llama           4:55

A5           Got To Have You              2:27

B1           Son Con Cuero                  5:12

B2           Mirame De Frente           4:27

B3           New York Soul                   2:38

B4           Ahora Si                               5:36

Credits

Bass – Mr. Soul

Bongos – Tony Fuentes

Congas – Ray Barretto

Design – Izzy Sanabria

Photography By [Cover] – Marty Topp

Piano – Louis Cruz

Producer – Jerry Masucci

Timbales – Orestes Vilato

Trumpet – "Papy" Roman*, Roberto Rodriguez)

Vocals – Adalberto Santiago

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