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Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. [2] Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz .
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Contact! is an album by the American musician Ray Barretto, released in 1998. [2] [3] He is credited with his band, New World Spirit. [4] [5] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Latin Jazz Performance". [6] [7] Barretto supported the album by headlining the 1998 Latin Jazz Festival, in New York City. [8]
Típica 73 was an American charanga and salsa band in the 1970s and early 1980s, that was formed by musicians from Ray Barretto's band. [1] " Típica" refers to the typical configuration of a Cuban chararanga while "73" refers to the year that group was founded.
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It was taken from their debut album Mental Floss for the Globe and samples the Ray Barretto song he recorded in 1968 with a similar name ("A Deeper Shade of Soul"). Originally released in 1990, the single reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1991 and stayed on the charts for 18 weeks. [ 1 ]
Having been recorded by numerous artists, the song has become a jazz standard.Among the people who have recorded the tune are Ray Barretto, Bix Beiderbecke, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, [7] Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Mercer, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Frank Crumit, Erroll Garner, Al Hirt, [8] Claude Hopkins, Ted Lewis, Jimmie Lunceford, Jim Reeves, Shelly Manne, Oscar Peterson ...
The Blackout All-Stars was a one-off 1994 Latin supergroup consisting of Ray Barretto, Sheila E., Tito Puente, Tito Nieves, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Valentin, Grover Washington Jr., and Tony Pabón.