Ray’s ashes will be divided and scattered over New York and Puerto Rico–fitting for a man whose double life bridged Latinamericana and jazz. The Barretto family is naming a foundation to help ...

When I got the news that Ray Barretto had been taken from us February 17, I cried. And then I went back to the music. Ray was born April 29, 1929, in Brooklyn, then moved with his family at an early ...

Although both of his parents were full-blooded Puerto Ricans, Ray Barretto was as American as they come. Born in Brooklyn, by the age of seven he had already resided in that borough, as well as ...