{{Short description|American jazz drummer (1934–2020)}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Ray Mantilla | image = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|6|22|mf=y}} | birth_place = South Bronx, New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|3|21|1934|6|22|mf=y}} | death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. | genre = Jazz, Latin jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Drums | years_active = 1950s–2020 | label = Inner City, Red, Savant | past_member_of = M'Boom, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Jazz Tribe }}
'''Raymond Mantilla''' (June 22, 1934 – March 21, 2020) was an American percussionist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sanabria|first=Bobby|url=https://www.wbgo.org/post/ray-mantilla-percussionist-who-blazed-trail-both-jazz-and-latin-music-dead-85#stream/0|title=Ray Mantilla, Percussionist Who Blazed a Trail in Both Jazz and Latin Music, Is Dead at 85|work=WBGO|date=March 23, 2020|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Birchmeier|first=Jason|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-mantilla-mn0000407857/biography|title=Ray Mantilla biography|work=AllMusic|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ray Mantilla, Percussionist Who Transcended Genres, Dies at 85|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/arts/music/ray-mantilla-dead.html|work=The New York Times|last=Russonello|first=Giovanni|date=March 28, 2020|accessdate=March 28, 2020}}</ref>
==Discography==
===As leader=== * ''Mantilla'' (Inner City, 1978) * ''Hands of Fire'' (Red, 1984) * ''Synergy'' (Red, 1986) * ''Dark Powers'' (Red, 1988) * ''The Next Step'' (Red, 2000) * ''Man-Ti-Ya'' (Savant, 2004) * ''Good Vibrations'' (Savant, 2006) * ''The Connection'' (Savant, 2013) * ''High Voltage'' (Savant, 2017) * ''Rebirth'' (Savant, 2021)
===As sideman=== '''With Mose Allison''' * 1994 ''The Earth Wants You'' * 1997 ''Jazz Profile''
'''With Gato Barbieri''' *''Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata'' (Impulse!, 1974) *''Yesterdays'' (Flying Dutchman, 1974)
'''With Ray Barretto''' * 1961 ''Barretto Para Bailar'' * 1963 ''Latino! & Afro-Jaws'' * 1973 ''Carnaval: Latino!/Pachanga with Barretto''
'''With Joe Beck''' *''Beck & Sanborn'' (Columbia, 1975) *''Beck'' (Kudu, 1975)
'''With Walter Bishop Jr.''' *''Cubicle'' (Muse, 1978) '''With Art Blakey''' *''Child's Dance'' (Prestige, 1972) *''In My Prime Vol. 1'' (Timeless, 1977) *''In My Prime Vol. 2'' (Timeless, 1977)
'''With Teresa Brewer''' * 1982 ''Midnight Cafe (A Few More for the Road)'' * 1984 ''Live at Carnegie Hall & Montreaux, Switzerland'' * 1983 ''I Dig Big Band Singers''
'''With Kenny Burrell''' * 1991 ''Sunup to Sundown'' * 1998 ''Kenny Burrell and the Jazz Giants''
'''With Joe Chambers''' *''The Almoravid'' (Muse, 1973) *''New World'' (Finite, 1976)
'''With Richie Cole''' * ''New York Afternoon'' (Muse, 1977) * 1977 ''Alto Madness'' * 1986 ''Pure Imagination'' * 1996 ''West Side Story'' * 1998 ''Richie & Phil & Richie'' * 2006 ''Rises's Rose Garden''
'''With Larry Coryell''' * 1975 ''Basics (1968–1969)'' * 1979 ''Return'' * 2002 ''Birdfingers''
'''With Joe Farrell''' *''Canned Funk'' (CTI, 1975)
'''With John Hicks''' *''Sweet Love of Mine'' (HighNote, 2006)
'''With Morgana King''' * 1998 ''Looking Through the Eyes of Love'' * 2000 ''Tender Moments''
'''With Herbie Mann''' *''Flute, Brass, Vibes and Percussion'' (Verve, 1959) *''The Common Ground'' (Atlantic, 1961) *''The Family of Mann'' (Atlantic, 1961) *''Herbie Mann at the Village Gate'' (Atlantic, 1962) *''Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate'' (Atlantic, 1963) *''Our Mann Flute'' (Atlantic, 1966) *''Discothèque'' (Atlantic, 1975) *''Waterbed'' (Atlantic, 1975)
'''With M'Boom''' *''Collage'' (Soul Note, 1984) *''To the Max!'' (Enja, 1990–91) * ''Live at S.O.B.'s New York'' (1992)
'''With Jack McDuff''' *''Magnetic Feel'' (Cadet, 1975) '''With Jimmy McGriff''' *''The Groover'' (JAM, 1982) '''With Bob McHugh''' * 1994 ''Manhattan Sunrise'' * 2003 ''Another Sunrise''
'''With Charles Mingus''' * 1978 ''Cumbia & Jazz Fusion'' * 1979 ''Me, Myself an Eye'' * 1981 ''Something Like a Bird''
'''With Diedre Murray and Fred Hopkins''' * ''Stringology'' (Black Saint, 1994) '''With Mark Murphy'''
* ''Satisfaction Guaranteed'' (Muse, 1980)
'''With James Spaulding''' *''Gotstabe a Better Way!'' (Muse, 1988 [1990])
'''With Jeremy Steig''' *''Monium'' (Columbia, 1974) *''Temple of Birth'' (Columbia, 1975) *''Firefly'' (CTI, 1977)
'''With The Players Association''' * 1980 ''We Got the Groove'' * 1998 ''The Players Association/Turn the Music Up!''
'''With Mickey Tucker''' *''Mister Mysterious'' (Muse, 1978)
'''With Cedar Walton''' *''Mobius'' (RCA, 1975) *''The Pentagon'' (East Wind, 1976) *''Soundscapes'' (Columbia, 1980) * ''Roots'' (1997) *''Latin Tinge'' (HighNote, 2002) *''The Bouncer'' (HighNote, 2011)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Discogs artist|Ray Mantilla}}
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