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Artist - Ray Barretto
Album - Standards Rican-Ditioned
Label - Zoho
Street Date - 08/14/2006
Release Date - 10/19/2006
Genre - Jazz
# NAME TIME
01. Lean On Me 08:19
02. Trav'lin' Light 07:44
03. Ivy 04:30
04. Suddenly It's Spring 05:09
05. I Had The Craziest Dream 05:29
06. Something To Live For 03:49
07. Baby, Baby All The Time 06:32
08. Brandy's Blues 06:28
09. Strange Music 04:52
52:52 min
73,6 Mb
This was Ray Barretto's last album, recorded exactly a month
before he suffered a heart attack that contributed to his
death in Feb. 2006. Sadly, it would also be one of pianist
Hilton Ruiz's final sessions, for he passed away in Jun. 2006
under mysterious circumstances. As such, it is poignant that
both of these open-minded Latin jazz musicians would be
looking backwards at this stage, for this is an album of
standards recorded in an old-fashioned, straight-ahead style.
This CD reverts back to a formula that Blue Note, Riverside
and Prestige sometimes pursued in the middle of the 20th
century; set a straight-forward, hard bop rhythm and accent
it lightly with congas. As Barretto knew so well from long
experience in the studios back then, the result is a
straight-ahead collection with an extra zing - and at 76,
Barretto had plenty of perfectly-accented zing left. He gets
capable soloing out of his front line - David Sanchez on
tenor and Papo Vazquez on trombone - together on "Suddenly
It's Spring" and "Baby, Baby All The Time" (with Vazquez
growling on a plunger mute in the latter) and separately on
the other tunes. Ruiz offers a rhapsodic, nearly symphonic
solo rendition of Ellington/Strayhorn's "Something To Live
For," and Ray's son Chris appears on alto in "Trav'lin Light"
and "Brandy's Blues." Chris also plays a crucial role in the
album's last track, "Strange Music," thatrarely-covered,
syrup-coated Wright & Forrest reworking of Grieg. Rayentered
the hospital on the day he was scheduled to overdub his
congas on the track, so Chris went in after his father's
death and taped the conga part quite competently himself. But
Ray Barretto isn't entirely absent, for you can hear his scat
vocals outlining the conga rhythm he wanted. Thank goodness
they kept this in; it adds a jaunty parting touch from the
conga master.
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