name

Ray Baretto, Percussion

dates

b. 4/29/29; d. 2/17/2006

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Barretto