Collaborations
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October 17, 2014
Soft Winds (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This Benny Goodman tune is known from six concerts: ’67 LC Pleyel ’67 LC Berlin ’67 LC Frankfurt ’68 LC Bakersfield ’68 LC Paris ’68 LC Fresno
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October 17, 2014
Someone To Watch Over Me (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501 (Monaural)/TRCS 1501 (Stereo), 22 June 1963. Recorded with uncredited musicians at the United Recordings Studios, Hollywood, California in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. David Ritz wrote (in The Guardian of 9 January 2003): “Charles thought Scott’s problem was that he didn’t have the right material. That was […]
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October 16, 2014
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (With Elton John)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004. Ray’s last recording, at RPM International in Los Angeles in March 2004. For an unabridged personnel listing check Wikipedia. Making of:
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October 16, 2014
Soul Brothers (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Brothers, Atlantic 1279, June 1958. Recorded on September 12, 1957 in New York City. Milt Jackson – piano; Ray Charles – alto saxophone; Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone; Skeeter Best – guitar; Oscar Pettiford – bass; Connie Kaye – drums.
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October 16, 2014
Soul Meeting (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded on April 10, 1958 in New York City. Milt Jackson – vibraharp; Ray Charles – piano; Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums.
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October 16, 2014
Soul Serenade (Ft. Susaye Greene)
Read moreUnreleased. The Curtis Ousley/Luther Dixon song, made famous by Aretha Franklin, is known from an excellent rendition by Ray’s “little angel”, Susaye Greene. It was only caught once, in a tape made “from the audience”, on October 25, 1968 in Fresno.
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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 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
Story Of My Life (By Guitar Slim, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle3 (A): Specialty 490, April 1954, b/w Letter To My Girlfriend (aka Prison Blues). Recorded in New Orleans at Cosimo’s Sudio on 27 October 1953. With Lloyd Lambert’s band (including Charles Burbank, Joe Tillman, and Gus Fontenotte on saxes, Frank Mitchell on trumpet, Lambert on bass, Oscar Moore on drums) backing him up with special […]
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October 15, 2014
Straight Ahead And Strive For Tone (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. An orchestra piece penned by Roger Neumann. Live: ’81 LC Rome – Partial ’84 LC Warsaw Warsaw 1984:
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October 15, 2014
Straight No Chaser (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray Charles put this Thelonious Monk tune at the end of his setlist in all 4 concerts that I know of. The last performance (Melbourne 2003, in a quartet setting) was the most memorable one. Live: ’69 LC Paris ’76 LC Antibes ’99 LC Marciac 03 LC Melbourne
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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