Search results for "Ray Barretto"
Lou Donaldson: Blues Walk (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07Recorded when Lou Donaldson was still under the sway of Charlie Parker and before he embraced soul-jazz, the stark mi...
Kenny Burrell: Chitlins Con Carne (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 31, 07Strictly speaking (and we here at Jazz.com are semantic sticklers), "Chitlins Con Carne" is double-talk. Since chitli...
Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins: Montono Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 21, 08This early-'60s Kenny Burrell original is a relaxed setting paced by Ray Barretto's swaying Latin rhythms. The first ...
Wes Montgomery: Watch What Happens (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 05, 07By 1967, Pop Jazz was staler than last night's butts, as shown by an ashtray's contents on this track's close-up albu...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING
Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...
Wes Montgomery: California Dreaming (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 19, 07In 1963, the year California overtook New York as the most populous state, folk-rockers John and Michelle Phillips we...
Eddie Harris: Listen Here (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 03, 07In the tumultuous half-decade since Eddie Harris's hit "Exodus" (1961), much had changed. Musicians were electrifying...
Mark Murphy: Doodlin' (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 03, 07This track comes perilously close to being not imitation hip, but the real thing. Horace Silver's "Doodlin'" was a fo...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS
Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...
Barretto, Ray posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09As the house percussionist - simultaneously - for the Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside labels the 1960s, Ray Barrett...
In Conversation with Hans Glawischnig posted in Features and Interviews March 05, 08By Tomas Peña Your father, Dieter Glawischnig is a classically trained pianist and composer whose heart lies...
Puente, Tito (Ernesto Antonio Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09Known affectionately as the "Mambo King" and "El Rey," timbalero Tito Puente was an instrumental figure in popularizi...
Rosenberg, Roger posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rosenberg, Roger, saxophone; b. New York City, 26 May 1951. As a child, his family moved first to New Rochelle, and t...
Slagle, Steve posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Slagle, Steve: alto and soprano saxophonist, flutist, and composer, was born in Los Angeles,California Sept 18, 1951,...
Deodato: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 16, 07Space Age Jazz's final triumph was to prove, 72 years after Nietzsche's death, his Eternal Return theory of a constan...
The Lives of the Jazz Greats posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 28, 09Hidden behind the scenes of jazz.com, a team of writers has been working on building the world’s biggest on-line ja...
S, Harvie posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07S, Harvie (formerly Harvie Swartz) bassist, composer, bandleader, educator, producer; b. Chelsea, MA, December 6, l94...
Eulau, Andy (F.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Eulau, Andy (F.), bass; b. Sleepy Hollow, NY. He got a Master of Music, 1985 North Texas University College of Music,...
Rodriguez, Robert posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rodriguez, Robert, pianist, composer; b. New York City, NY, 11 January 1978. Inspired by his father Roberto Rodrig...
Magnarelli, Joe (Joseph Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Magnarelli, Joe (Joseph Anthony), trumpet, piano; b. Syracuse, NY, 19 January 1960. At the age of 12 he started to...
Moreira, Airto (Guimorva) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Moreira, Airto (Guimorva), percussion, drums, singer; b. Itaiopolis, Brazil, 5 August 1941. Itaiopolis is a small vil...
In Conversation with Eddie Palmieri and Brian Lynch posted in Features and Interviews January 21, 08By Bob Blumenthal Introduction: For the past six years, I have served as critic-in-residence at the Discover...
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