Collaborations
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August 29, 2013
An Incomplete Audio Of Ray Charles’ 2nd A Fool For You Ballet-Concert Series (1989)
Read moreMay 12, 1989 Wolfgang’s Concert Vault can’t be praised enough for sharing their huge catalog of American live music with their internet audience. Their only flaw is that they often don’t know exactly what they’re publishing. A recent file of a Ray Charles performance at the “ST Theatre” in New York, taped on 12 May […]
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July 6, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The Wolf Trap (1997)
Read moreOn June 21, 1997 Ray Charles gave a concert at the Wolf Trap in Vienna (VA). An audience-taped recording, with a very reasonable quality has survived. Woody ‘n’ Bu (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solos KS – tp, RJ – ts, EV – p Unidentified instrumental* (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solos AW – ts, TM – […]
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July 6, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The ArtPark (1990)
Read moreOn 20 June 1990 Ray Charles played at the ArtPark in Lewiston. An audience-taped recording can be found here. 1. Sister Sadie – partial (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solo Scott Frillman – bs 2. Fire Up (The Ray Charles Orchestra) 3. The Shadow Of Your Smile (The Ray Charles Orchestra) 4. Unidentified instrumental (The Ray Charles […]
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April 8, 2013
Ray Charles Live In Saratoga Springs (1988)
Read moreOn 20 and 21 August 1988 the Ray Charles aggregation headlined the JVC Jazz Festival at the Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs (NY). Someone in the audience taped the show on the 21st. Here you can listen to it. The setlist* was: Bacio (Ray Charles Orchestra) (Jeff Kaye – tp; Armin Marmolejo – tb) […]
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March 12, 2013
Ray Charles 3x At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1972)
Read morePhoto by Michel Artault/Corbis. On 16 and 17 October 1972 the Ray Charles Band once again played a series of – probably four – concerts at the Pleyel Room in Paris. Three of the shows were recorded by Europe-1. It’s not clear whether and when any of them was aired by the station. The setlists […]
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February 11, 2013
Ray Charles Ft In McDonalds Jingles (1976, 1979)
Read more1976 In January 1976 Ray Charles completed the musical portion of a 60-second bicentennial themed commercial for McDonalds. The spot was part of a “Special Black Bicentennial Radio” promotion entitled Soul of a Nation, narrated by Bill Cosby, with free brochures dealing with “the monumental contribution Black Americans have made to our country’s overall development”, […]
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January 8, 2013
Ray Charles Ft. In 19th Annual Music City News Country Awards (1985)
Read moreRay Charles and Willie Nelson were among the 5 nominees for the Duet of the year Award at the 19th Annual Music City News Country Awards, telecast live from the Opry House in Nashville on June 10, 1985, no doubt for their recording of Seven Spanish Angels, as released on Ray’s album Friendship (February 1985). They possibly […]
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December 27, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Moscow (1994)
Read moreAnnouncement on the Russian torrent website [name withheld]. Through the Jazz On The Screen database I was aware of two concerts by Ray Charles at the Russia Concert Hall in Moscow on 13 and 14 July 1994, sponsored by Alfa-Bank, and of the fact that the second one, directed by Sergei Antipov, was recorded for […]
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November 11, 2012
Six Instrumentals From The Mexico Concert (1975)
Read moreOn 6 and 7 December 1975 the Ray Charles group played a series of concerts in Mexico City. I wrote earlier about a ‘board mix’ version of Cherry, but it turns out that all of the instrumentals that were performed by the Ray Charles Orchestra have also survived, coming from the same tape recording. The […]
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November 7, 2012
Ray Charles Singing More Love Than Ordinary In Manor Commercial (1999)
Read moreAd by one of Manor’s retail chains. Groupe Manor is a Swiss retail group. In 1999 they broadcast a Millennium commercial. The agency was Frei. Partner. The production company was Wirz Fraefel Paal. The film was shot at Studio Primetime in Zürich; directed by Ernst Wirz, creative direction by Mäni Frei, Martin Furhrer held the […]
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September 10, 2012
Ray Charles In New Haven (1985)
Read moreSource: Topfoto. On 8 June 1985 Ray Charles and his group gave a concert at the Shubert Performing Arts Center in New Haven. The show was taped from the audience. The audio quality is a little less than mediocre. The setlist was: Project S (Ray Charles Orchestra) Intro Let the Good Times Roll Georgia On […]
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August 12, 2012
Ray Charles And B.B. King Live In San Carlos (1972)
Read morePhoto from a 5-day early December 1972 stint at the Valley Music Theater in Woodland Hills, also co-billed with B.B. King. A kind reader of this blog last week surprised me by sending me a cassette with an audience recording of a 1972 concert in San Carlos (CA). It has a decent audio quality, and […]