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October 16, 2014
Spain (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: Live In Japan, Crossover/London (Japan) #535/#536, July 1976. Great big band arrangement of Chick Corea’s signature composition, in a great arrangement by Alf Clausen. Solo’s on the Japan and Mexico 1975 live recordings: Jack Evans – flugelhorn, trumpet; Ed Pratt – alto saxophone. Live: ’75 LC Mexico ’85 LC Antibes ’90 LC Tokyo
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October 16, 2014
Spirit In The Dark (With Aretha Franklin)
Read moreAlbum3: Aretha Franklin, Live At The Fillmore West (Atlantic, SD 7205). Album 3: Don’t Fight The Feeling: The Complete Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At Fillmore West, Rhino Handmade, 3 May 2005. Audio stream: Aretha Franklin – Fillmore West, Concert Vault, S.a. Video stream: Aretha Franklin, Spirit In The Dark, Concert Vault, S.a. Line-up: King Curtis’s the […]
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October 16, 2014
St. Pete Blues (aka St Pete’s Blues; St Pete Florida Blues; Baby,Let Me Hear You Call My Name; I Found My Baby There, Done Found Out)
Read moreFrom Cashbox, Jul. 26, 1952. Compilation EP: Ray Charles – The Original Uncut Rockin’ Records 1950, [Henry Stone Music], Rockin’ Records, 2004). Ray dated the recording in 1947, his biographers agree that this was approximately 2 years too early, but further research shows that the gap may be as big as 3 or even 4 years. […]
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October 16, 2014
Stella By Starlight
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 and 24, 1960. With (uncredited) strings and singers. Marty Paich – arranger, conductor. Live: ’84 LC Carnegie NM (unsure). According to concert souvenir booklets from 1961 to c 1964, this number was part of the live repertoire then, but […]
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October 15, 2014
Sticks And Stones
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Worried Life Blues. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 27 April 1960. Phil Guilbeau – trumpet, John Hunt – flugelhorn; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis […]
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October 15, 2014
Still Crazy After All These Years
Read moreAlbum: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. Arranged by Jeremy Lubbock. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above. About Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After […]
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October 15, 2014
Stompin’ Room Only
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961. Instrumental arranged by Ralph Burns, with Ray Charles on organ. The sessions at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, were on 26 and 27 December 1960. With Philip Guilbeau, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Eugene (Snooky) Young – trumpets; Henry Coker, Urbie Green, Al […]
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October 15, 2014
Stormy Monday (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (bootleg CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a. Ray Charles fooled around several times with citations from Stormy Monday (Madrid 1975, The Hague 1980), but this version with a combo led by Dizzy Gillespie came closest to a complete rendition (although Ray had trouble again to get the rhythm section in the right […]
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October 15, 2014
Stranger In My Own Home Town
Read moreAlbum: Just Between Us, Columbia 40703, September 1988. With uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (i.e. Mark Curry, Jeff Helgesen, Ted Murdock, Jeff Kaye – trumpets; Mike Christianson, Armin Marmolejo, Steve Sigmund, Charlie Schofner – trombones; Al Jackson, Chris Lega, Ricky Woodard, Rudy Johnson, Leroy Cooper – saxophones; Ernest Vantrease – keyboards; Kenny Carr – […]
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October 15, 2014
Stranger In My Own Home Town (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Single (A). Tangerine 941, 1964, b/w Maybe It’s Because Of Love. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; other personnel unidentified.
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October 15, 2014
Strike Up The Band
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, on 26 and 27 December 1960. Ray Charles on Hammond, trumpet by Phil Guilbeau. Arranged by Quincy Jones. Follow the album link above for further details. Live: ”62 LC Berlin – Released
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October 15, 2014
String Bean
Read moreAlbum: Wish You Were Here Tonight, Columbia 38293, March 1983. Recorded between 1981 and 1983 with uncredited session musicians in Nashville, finished at RPM International in Los Angeles.