1960
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October 27, 2014
Meditation (By Rita Graham, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: Rita Graham, Vibrations, Tangerine TRCS 1507, 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians. Arranged by Sid Feller.
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October 27, 2014
Memories Of You
Read moreAlbum: I’m All Yours Baby, ABC/Tangerine 675. February 1969. Recorded with lots of strings and a few horns at RPM International in Los Angeles. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks — Cyd
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October 27, 2014
Memory Pain (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine 935, 1964, b/w You Don’t Exist No More.Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1962. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Newman – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Sonny Forriest, guitar. Arrangement by Gerald Wilson.
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October 27, 2014
Midnight
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. The Chet Atkins song brilliantly jazzified with special bass trombone FX. Recorded on 5 September 1962 in New York. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. Musicians not credited. Ray also sang second voice. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, […]
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October 27, 2014
Mississippi Mud
Read moreAlbum: Album: Genius Hits the Road, ABC/Paramount 335, 1960-07. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 29 March 1960. ‘Arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns’, according to the liner notes. In reality, the tune was probably charted by Bob Brookmeyer. With John Hunt, Marcus Belgrave, Martin Banks – trumpet; David Newman – tenor saxophone, […]
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October 26, 2014
Mister C
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961. The album was recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, on 26 and 27 December 1960. Ray Charles – organ; Philip Guilbeau (all trumpet solos), Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Eugene (Snooky) Young – trumpets; Henry Coker, Urbie Green (solo), Al Grey, Benny […]
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October 26, 2014
Misty (The Ray Charles Band, Ft Hank Crawford)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Orchestra – Zurich 1961. TCB (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series #41), [2016]. Recorded during the Ray Charles Big Band’s first concert in Europe by Radio Basel at the Kongresshaus in Zürich on October 18, 1961. The performance of Misty is the only known live recording of this song by the Ray Charles Band. Crawford’s original studio version was released on […]
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October 26, 2014
Moanin’
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961. The album was recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, on 26 and 27 December 1960. Ray Charles – voc, organ; Philip Guilbeau (all trumpet solos), Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Eugene (Snooky) Young – trumpets; Henry Coker, Urbie Green, Al Grey, Benny […]
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October 26, 2014
Moon Over Miami
Read moreAlbum: Album: Genius Hits the Road, ABC/Paramount 335, July 1960. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 29 March 1960. The liner notes say that the tune was arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns. In reality, the tune was probably charted by Al Cohn. Milt Turner – drums; Edgar Willis – bass; uncredited strings […]
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October 26, 2014
Moonlight In Vermont
Read moreAlbum: Album: Genius Hits the Road, ABC/Paramount 335, July 1960. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 25 March 1960. With Milt Turner on drums and Edgar Willis on bass, strings and choir. According to the liner notes, the song was arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns; in reality, the tune was probably charted […]
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October 26, 2014
Move It On Over
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York on May 7, 1964. Arranged by gerald Wilson. The session’s participants were Curt Miller, Oliver Beener, Floyd Jones, Philip Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrowes, Wallace Davenport – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, Julian Priester, Keg Johnson – trombones; Danny Turner, Harold Geezil Minerve, Bill […]
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October 26, 2014
Mr. Charles Blues
Read moreCompilation album: Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Recorded on December 4, 1953 in New Orleans. With Wallace Davenport, Frank Mitchell (trumpets); Gerald O’Neil (alto saxophone), Joe Tillman (tenor saxophone), Warren Bell (baritone saxophone); Lloyd Lambert (bass); Oscar Moore (drums). Live: Atlantic’s compilation obviously made Ray aware of the tune again; […]