Danny "Big Black" Rey

Danny "Big Black" Rey is an American actor, musician, and percussionist specializing in Latin and ethnic jazz music.

Career After playing at clubs and hotels in Miami and in calypso bands in the Bahamas during the 1950s, he moved to New York in the early 1960s, working mostly with Randy Weston, and Pharoah Sanders.

In 1989 he moved from New York to California.

Discography As leader/co-leader Message to our Ancestors (1969), with the flutist Black Harold (Universal City 73012) Ethnic Fusion (1981–1982), with the guitarist Arthur Wheaton (1750 Arch 1790)

As sideman

Randy (1964) – Randy Weston (Bakton) The Night of the Cookers (1965) – Freddie Hubbard (Blue Note Records) Monterey '66 (released 1994) – Randy Weston (Verve Records) Blue Spirits (released 1967) – Freddie Hubbard (Blue Note Records) Impact (1975) – Charles Tolliver's Music Inc. and Orchestra (Strata-East Records)