Neighborhoods
Wikipedia ties Ray Barretto to Morrisania in the Bronx and East Harlem in Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
The Village Gate
1958–1994Art D’Lugoff’s club at Bleecker and Thompson Streets, 1958 to 1994. It featured musicians including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Edgard Varèse, and the Alegre label held events there that led to live records, among them the Tico All-Stars’ Descargas (1966) with Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Joe Cuba. In 2008 its downstairs space reopened as (Le) Poisson Rouge, per Wikipedia.
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Moment
Harlem Cultural Festival, Mount Morris Park
1969Six free Sunday concerts in Mount Morris Park in the summer of 1969, known informally as “Black Woodstock” and the subject of the 2021 documentary Summer of Soul. Ray Barretto was among the performers, and a young Luther Vandross sang with Listen My Brother in the final week, per Wikipedia.
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