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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
Merry Christmas Baby
Read moreAlbum (VHS, France): Ray Charles Live, Cinéthèque VCV 402, S.a. A great rendition of the Charles Brown song, from the TV show Christmas In Ettal – A Black Ceremony at a Monastery in Germany, taped (most probably) in 1976, on Christmas Eve.The VHS erroneously titled the song Santa Claus Blues. With Sal Nistico – tenor saxophone; Carmell Jones, […]
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October 27, 2014
Mess Around
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 999, July 1953 b/w Funny But I Still Love You.Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957. Taped in New York on 17 May 1953 with “his orchestra”: Jesse Drakes – tp; Sam Taylor- ts; Dave McRae – bs; Connie Kay – d; Mickey Baker – g; Lloyd Trotman – b. The song peaked […]
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October 27, 2014
Metamorphosis (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. Recorded with the Ray Charles Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Solos: Clifford Solomon – as; Phil Guilbeau – tp; Ernest Vantrease – p. Arranged by Roger Neumann. Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil […]
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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
Misery In My Heart (aka Going Down To The River; aka Givin’ It Up; aka I’m Going To Drown Myself)
Read moreSingle (A): Swing Time 326, 1953, b/w The Snow Is Falling.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1951. “With Orchestra”: Ray Charles – voc, p; arr; Billy Brooks, Fleming Askew – tp; Marshall Royal, Earl Brown – as; Stanley Turrentine, Maurice Simon – ts; Charles Waller – bs; Frank […]
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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
Misty (with Steve Turre) (Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Steve Turre, In The Spur Of The Moment, Telarc 83484, 1999. The sessions with Ray Charles were recorded at Avatar Studios, Studios A & C, New York, New York on August 14 and October 8, 1999. Steve Turre – shells, trombone; Ray Charles – piano; Peter Washington – bass; Peter Turre – drums.