Ray Mantilla
Raymond Mantilla (born June 22, 1934 in the Bronx , New York City , † March 21, 2020 in Manhattan , New York City) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist .
Live and act
Mantilla had been active since the 1950s and was shaped by Afro Cuban jazz . At first he played in Latin Jazz combos such as La Playa Sextet , with Xavier Cugat , Lou Perez , Rene Touzet , Miguelito Valdez and Monguito Conjunto . However, he accompanied Eartha Kitt as early as 1955 . In 1960 he went on tour with Herbie Mann and was called in by Max Roach for the recording of the Freedom Now Suite . He then recorded with Al Cohn (1961), Freddie Hubbard , Buddy Rich and Larry Coryell . Between 1963 and 1969, Mantilla led a band in Puerto Rico before becoming one of the founding members of Roach's percussion ensemble M'Boom in 1970 .
During the early 1970s he was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers , with whom he also played in Europe and Japan. He also worked with Gato Barbieri , Joe Farrell (1974), Richie Cole , Don Pullen (1976-77), Charles Mingus ( Cumbia & Jazz Fusion , 1977), Walter Bishop junior , Jeremy Steig , Karl Ratzer and Morgana King (1979 ). In 1977 he toured Cuba with Dizzy Gillespie .
In 1979 he founded his own Ray Mantilla Space Station . During the 1980s he worked with musicians as diverse as Muhal Richard Abrams , Kenny Burrell , Shirley Scott and Warren Chiasson . In the 1990s he worked with the jazz tribe led by Bobby Watson and himself . In his final years he revived his space station . Mantilla died at New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center in March 2020. Mantilla's last album Rebitth was released posthumously in mid-2020 .
Discographic notes
- Mantilla ( Inner City Records , 1978)
- Hands of Fire ( Red Records , 1984)
- Synergy (Red, 1986)
- Dark Powers (Red, 1988)
- The Next Step (Red, 2000)
- Man-Ti-Ya (Savant Records, 2004)
- Good Vibrations (Savant, 2006)
Web links
- Ray Mantilla on All Music Guide
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X , p. 433.
- Discussion of the CD “man ti ya”, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bobby Sanabria: Ray Mantilla, Percussionist Who Blazed a Trail in Both Jazz and Latin Music, Is Dead at 85.WBGO, March 23, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Britt Robson: Review of the album at JazzTimes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mantilla, Ray |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mantilla, Raymond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American drummer and percussionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2020 |
| Place of death | New York City |