Ray Barretto
Actor · 1929 – 2006 · New York City, New York, USA
Ray Barretto was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz.
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Movie7.6MusicDocumentaryDuring the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
Movie8.0DocumentaryHistoryWhen the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that eventually conquered the entire city.
Nueva York : une histoire musicale du New York latino
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
2021 · 1 votes
MovieComedyFamilySesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 1979. (Muppet Wiki)
Movie10.0DocumentaryMusicThe Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, there's also included a history of Salsa, and vintage film clips of Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in movies during the 1930's and 40's.
Salsa
1976 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaThrillerA young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.
Money
1991 · 5 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryDocuments the life and musical production of Puerto Rican music composer, Tite Curet Alonso. Includes Tite Curet's last interview before his death.
Las caras lindas de Tite Curet
2002 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryThrough interviews and performance clips, filmmaker Henry Chalfant explores the history of music in the South Bronx, from the Puerto Rican and Cuban influences that created the local salsa sound to the rise of hip-hop after fires destroyed the area. Artists appearing in this colorful documentary include Eddie Palmieri, Angel Rodríguez, Benny Bonilla, Clemente "Kid Freeze" Moreno, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Bobby Sanabria and many others.
Movie8.0DocumentaryHistoryLeon Gast's musical documentary reveals New York City's Latin culture and features live performances of salsa greats The Fania All Stars and The Spanish Speaking People of New York. A document of urban American Hispanic culture, Gast's film captures the rhythms of New York's Spanish Harlem, from illegal cockfights and Santeria rituals to the rooftops and backstreets of El Barrio and the legendary musicians performing at the Cheetah club.
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
1972 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryMusic'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.