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La Cuna (Sow/CTI ZK66126)
You may know Barrette as one of the last surviving legends of Latin-jazz. Especially now that Mongo Santamaria and Tito Puente are no longer with us, he is a vital living embodiment of the historical marriage of African-American and Afro-Cuban musical cultures. Barrette brought the beat of his congas to the hard-bop stylings of Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd and Red Garland among others in the Fifties and, in the successive decades, he embraced anything from boogaloo to salsa fusion but by 1979, when La Cuna was recorded, he was tar from his earlier hits such as El Watusi and Acid. Producer Creed Taylor always had commercial ...