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 started to explore jazz fusion composition.

After 10 year hiatus Ray starting releaseing new music under 'Old Men Rock Records'.

Ray likes combing many styles into each composition which was sparked by a conversion with Pat Martino. I was with Pat at his parents place in South Philly and he went to take a phone call and I started looking at his album collection and I came across a Earth, Wind and Fire album which kind of shocked me and I ask me him about it and Pat said "take the best from whatever you like and make it your own" and that statment formed my style, a fusion of different elements.

An interview with guitarist Ray Ferretti

Source: Lauren Rogers
October 11, 2011

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

Source: Lauren Rogers
March 30, 2011

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 ...
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