name

Ray Baretto, Percussion

dates

b. April 29, 1929; d. February 17, 2006

birth place

New York, NY

description

One of the great Latin-jazz bandleaders, he was also one of the first hand drummers who was welcomed into the studios not only for Latin-jazz dates, but beginning in the 50s also to embellish straight ahead jazz dates.

hot disc

Portraits in Jazz and Clave

more info

http://sandbox.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/barretto.html