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Ray Ferretti

Ray Ferretti started playing guitar in his early teens and was first drawn to music by the 70’s rock bands. Moving on to rhythm and blues and funk he started to gravitate toward jazz via Joe Pass. After hearing Wayne Shorter and Tribal Tech fusion bands he realized the style of music he wanted to play and compose. In the 90’s while starting to explore jazz fusion composition one found its way on Kristin Garson’s 1998 release ‘Music Under the Influence’ on the Vectordisc label. After an eight year hiatus from music and recovering from life changing circumstances in 2006 he started to play and compose music again. This new life seemed to bring out the creative juices that were lying dormant for years. Three years and sixteen tracks later ‘Nice View’ was released in November 2009 on the Vectordisc label.
 

New Release

Leaf Juice’ is the follow up to the successful ‘Nice View’.
This time around the instrumentation is scaled down to trio and quartet formats for more of a live sound.
Fans of Scott Henderson, Oz Noy and Tribal Tech will really enjoy this title.
Guitarist asked for more guitar this time around and Ray Ferretti has delivered from the opening track till the end.
Ray Ferretti (Guitar, Bass, Keyboards); Ron Thomas (Electric Piano & Synth); Jonas Aras (Electric Piano); Kristi Lynn Kosh (Voice)


Leaf Juice is available at CD Baby.


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Interview

An interview with guitarist Ray Ferretti

Source: Lauren Rogers

Guitarist Ray Ferretti lives in that twilight zone between progressive rock and jazz. It's a balance that isn't always executed with such precision and melody as Ferretti achieves on his new album, Leaf Juice. Quite the contrary, too many musicians fuse together those elements in a self-gratifying way; the result is often a record that quenches the intellectual thirst of the artist but leaves audiences cold, especially casual listeners. Ferretti manages to avoid that, producing a collection of songs that ...

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Recording

Philadelphia-based guitarist Ray Ferretti stirs together progressive rock and jazz on new CD

Philadelphia-based guitarist Ray Ferretti stirs together progressive rock and jazz on new CD

Source: Lauren Rogers

Guitarist Ray Ferretti stirs together the sonic experimentation of progressive rock and the rhythm-oriented structure of jazz so effortlessly well on his latest CD Leaf Juice it's almost like those two styles were parts of the same genre. Even more impressive is that Ferretti, for the most part, flies solo on this project, jamming by himself on the guitar, bass, and much of the keyboards; he was responsible for all of the drum programming, too. What happens often during one-man ...

Wayne Shorter
saxophone
Allan Holdsworth
guitar, electric
Chris Potter
saxophone
Oz Noy
guitar, electric

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mercury Sun

Distrokid
2022

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Leaf Juice

Vectordisc Records
2010

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