Appearances
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February 14, 2012
Ray Charles Tribute On Ice (2002)
Read moreOn Saturday, December 21, 2002 NBC aired a Ray Charles Tribute On Ice from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Commentator: Dan Hicks. From Jet, 28 October 2002. The program, taped on 5 October, featured the music of Ray Charles and the skating of Olympic and world champions. I’ve seen a copy of a French version […]
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February 13, 2012
Ray Charles In Concerto In Sanremo (1981)
Read moreStill from video. In October 1981 Ray Charles was booked for two subsequent days in Sanremo (or in Sanremo and Viareggio). But flying to Italy, the Ray Charles group landed 7 hours late in London because of a strike by flight engineers in the U.S., and had to cancel the first concert on the 12th, […]
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February 8, 2012
The Two Ray Charles Concerts At The Warsaw Jazz Jamboree (1984)
Read moreInterior of 2-CD booklet. The release & media history of the concerts at the 1984 Warsaw Jazz Jamboree is really (really!) complicated. For me it started, quite simply, a few years ago, when I found two or three clips from a live concert on Youtube. Investigating the provenance of these clips a bit further for […]
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February 4, 2012
Ray Charles – Il Genio, Live In Viareggio (1979)
Read moreStill from video. On 9 August 1979 Ray Charles, his Orchestra and The Raelettes gave their first concert at the Bussola Domani in Viareggio (cf. this). The show, directed by Antonio Moretti, was aired by RAI (Rete 1) on 18 October. I recently saw an umptieth generation, distorted, video copy of a later broadcast by […]
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January 31, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Pasadena (2002)
Read moreMore photos here. On 6 October 2002 the Ray Charles band performed at the Verizon Musical Festival, in the Central Park of Old Pasadena. I knew about a possible bootleg with seven songs (cf. this), but today I listened to a much more extensive tracklist from an audience-taped bootleg. The audio quality was very low, but […]
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January 30, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Paris Symphony Concert (1990)
Read moreOn February 14, 1990, Ray Charles played a concert with the Orchestre Symphonique d’Ile-de-France (conducted by Serge Gandolfi) at the Pavillon d’Armenonville, in Paris. Europe-1 took care of a live radio broadcast. From his orchestra’s rhythm section Ray also brought Kenny Carr on guitar. They Can’t Take That Away From Me If You Go Away It Hurts […]
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January 27, 2012
Ray Charles In Newport (1993)
Read moreUpdate January 22, 2017: ConcertVault.com has made the whole concert available. Watch it here. The setlist was: 01. [Intro band +] Metamorphosis (Ray Charles Orchestra) 02. [Intro RC + Walk-on +] Then We’ll Be Home (Sadies Tune) 03. Busted 04. Georgia On My Mind 05. Mississippi Mud 06. How Long Has This Been Going On* […]
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January 27, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Deauville (1995)
Read morePhoto taken in the Summer of 1995, in France; exact location unknown. Today I was able to listen in to (most of) a concert that was entirely new to me, documenting the show on 5 July 1995, at the Swing In music festival in Deauville. The tape I heard was a copy of a radio […]
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January 20, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Prague (1981)
Read moreOn 28 April 1981 Ray Charles played at the Palác Lucerna in Prague. The TV program was directed by A. Nosek. The Czech TV archive has a 64 minute tape (last televized on 20 June 2004). I’ve also listened to a 61-minute audio copy, which may have been extracted from the TV concert (but it could also be […]
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January 19, 2012
Ray Charles’ Christmas Special In Tokyo (1990)
Read moreThis poster may be from the Japan (and Hong Kong?) tour discussed here. After touring the world – including Japan, in October 1990 – with B.B. King and the Philip Morris Superband, Ray returned to Japan with his own band and The Raelettes only two months later for a series of 11 concerts (including 3 […]
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January 16, 2012
Ray Charles At Constitution Hall (1982)
Read moreBefore the concert Ray Charles was honored by the NBMC (from Billboard, November 20, 1982). Yesterday, a reader of this blog* surprised me with a concert video titled Ray Charles At Constitution Hall. The source of his copy dated the concert in “1980”, but the program can only be associated with a concert that took […]
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January 15, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1982)
Read moreAfter almost two years of research for this blog, it’s becoming increasingly rare to find video footage which is entirely new to me. But last week Hector Tarín Nieto, a young Ray Charles enthusiast from Valencia in Spain, surprised me with the message that he had found a video with (parts of) the concert at […]