Collaborations
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June 6, 2011
Visions of Genius: Remembering Ray Charles (2006)
Read moreAmerican Routes is a weekly public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music, exploring the shared musical and cultural threads of American music. On 28 June 2006 they aired a 2-hour program on Ray Charles, Visions of Genius: Remembering Ray Charles – a montage of Ray’s earlier contributions to […]
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April 30, 2011
Video Of Legendary Spirit In The Dark Duet (1971, With Aretha)!
Read moreWolfgang’s Vault, those wonderful guys who, since a few years, regularly give us supposedly long-lost audio recordings of live concerts, last year pleasantly surprised Rea & Ray-lovers with the unabridged 25m05s audio version of Spirit In The Dark, formerly only known through Jerry Wexler’s cut for the Atlantic album Aretha Franklin, Live At The Fillmore […]
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March 21, 2011
Genius And Friends (2005)
Read moreWhen a recording artist dies, their record company always gets squeezed between their (and the artist’s heirs’) commercial interests and their integrity. The questions they usually (have to) ask themselves are: Should we issue these songs, although the artist didn’t explicitly approve any release? Should we (re)mix those tunes to our own tastes, since the […]
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February 20, 2011
Rita Graham, Vibrations (Ray Charles On Piano) (1969)
Read moreYou Better Go Now Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (There Is) No Greater Love Meditation P.S. I Love You Charade The Genie My Cup Runneth Over You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To Cover photo by Howard Morehead. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, […]
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February 20, 2011
Bought Blues (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano) (1971)
Read moreNever No More* Ha Ha In The Day Time* I Reached For A Tear* My Bottle Is My Companion We Both Must Cry River’s Invitation* Pretty Eyed Baby Long As You’re Mine You Don’t Exist Anymore Fading Love * Ray played on these tracks. Known personnel on Percy’s earliest Tangerine tracks: Percy Mayfield – […]
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February 20, 2011
My Jug And I (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano) (1966)
Read moreMy Jug And I River’s Invitation Baby Please Stranger In My Own Home Town Never Say Naw The Hunt Is On Memory Pain I Reached For A Tear Life Is Suicide Maybe It’s Because Of Love Give Me Time Fading Love Recorded between 1963 and c. 1966 at unidentified studios, prob. in Los Angeles. […]
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January 22, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1990)
Read moreThe taping of Ray Charles’ concert in Antibes on 19 July 1990 at the 30th edition of Jazz à Juan was directed – as always – by Jean-Christophe Averty. The footage of the concert was re-edited into three 30-minute programs, titled Special Ray Charles (#1, #2, #3) which were broadcast by France 2. The choice for […]
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December 11, 2010
Ray Charles Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 1991, July 16th
Read moreVideo still: Khan, Charles, Benson. I already had quite some – and quite confusing* – information on Ray Charles’ contributions to the 1991 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival. It now is (though not yet in all details) becoming clear that Ray actually performed twice. Read this for some context. The Concert Database of the […]
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December 6, 2010
Ray Charles Ft. In Festa Azzura (With Renzo Arbore) (1994)
Read moreDuring the 1994 Soccer World Cup, held in the USA, Rai Uno produced the show Festa Azzurra at Madison Square Garden in New York. The show was broadcast in Italy via satellite. The evening was hosted by clarinetist and orchestra leader Renzo Arbore. His The Italian Orchestra performed together with a number of American guests, including […]
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December 2, 2010
Ray Charles In Alta Classa (1992)
Read moreAlta Classa was a series of twelve 2-hour programs broadcast by RAI Uno in 1991 – 1992. It had a dual format: the first part was a show, the second part a portrait based on interviews with the star, and with people who knew the protagonist well. On 7 January 1992 Ray Charles was the […]
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December 2, 2010
Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul (1983)
Read moreRay Charles – A Man And His Soul, A 40th Anniversary Celebration was a 2-hour special television tribute, celebrating Ray’s 40 years in show business, taped at the Cocoanut Grove club in LA in the early summer of 1983, produced for national syndication by The Dick Clark Company for Multimedia Entertainment. The show was directed […]
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October 10, 2010
Black Requiem – The Quincy Jones / Ray Charles Masterpiece That Never Was Released (1971, 1988, 1992) (Cont’d)
Read moreOn 20 July 1976 Quincy Jones published a column in The Baltimore Afro-American, where he shed some more light on the genesis of Black Requiem (read earlier article here), revealing that the work went back to a vow he and Ray made when they were together in Seattle (i.e. 1947/1949): “Back when Ray and I were […]