Tunes
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October 12, 2014
The Man I Love (With Marian McPartland)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray first recorded the tune in 1956, for The Genius After Hours. This intimate version was played during the wonderful Piano Jazz meeting with Marian McPartland on January 9, 1990, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York. Ray Charles – voc, p., el.p.; Marian McPartland – p. Here you can listen to it.
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October 12, 2014
The Man With The Weird Beard
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York in the first week of May 1964. Arranged by Johnny Parker. For line-up details, follow the album link above.
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October 12, 2014
The Midnight Hour
Read moreClipping from Baltimore Afro American, 11 October 1952. French EP, 1961. Single (A): Atlantic 976, September 1952, b/w Roll With Me Baby. Compilation album: The Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Ad from Cashbox, Nov. 1, 1952. Taped in New York on 11 September 1952. Trumpet, saxes, drums, bass by unidentified musicians.
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October 12, 2014
The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York in the first week of May 1964. Arranged by Johnny Parker. For the session details follow the link to the album, above.
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October 12, 2014
The Pages Of My Mind
Read moreAlbum: From The Pages Of My Mind, Columbia 40388, September 1986. Single (A): Columbia 6172, June 1986, b/w Slip Away. Recorded in Nashville (follow link above for line-up), and mixed in Los Angeles, at RPM International. Rio 1986 (near-complete, starts at 25’10): Live: ‘ 86 LC Rio ‘ 88 LC Saratoga
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October 12, 2014
The Preacher (With The Ray Charles Quartet)
Read moreUnreleased. In February 2003 Ray Charles opened his concert in Melbourne with this Horrace Silver tune. He was accompanied by Turre on drums, Tom Fowler on bass, Brad Rabuchin on guitar and Jean Michel-Bernard on Hammond.
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October 12, 2014
The Ray
Read moreAlbum: The Great Ray Charles, Atlantic 1259, August 1957. This instrumental was written and arranged by Quincy Jones, and recorded on 20 November 1956 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peeples – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b.
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October 12, 2014
The Right Time (Night Time Is –) (With Margie Hendricks)
Read moreSingle (B): Atlantic 2010, November 1958 b/w Tell All The World About You. Compilation album: The Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Recorded on 28 October 1958 in New York with Marcus Belgrave, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – ts; Hank Crawford – bs; Teagle Fleming – d; Edgar Willis – […]
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October 12, 2014
The River Charles
Read moreUncertain title; unreleased. In 1989 Ray Charles had a role (as God, or as the archangel Julius*) in the movie Limit up (MCEG 0970449925). At the end of the film (“under the titles”) he played a long solo on his alto, starting at 1:25 in the clip below. Clipping from Jet, 30 October 1989. Rich Martini informed me that […]
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October 12, 2014
The Same Thing That Can Make You Laugh (Can Make You Cry)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Doing His Thing, ABC/Tangerine 695, May 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With The Raelettes, The Ray Charles Orchestra (all musicians remained uncredited, but the little organ solo on this track may have been played by Doug “Doctor Music” Riley, who later remembered contributing as an arranger, and as the “second keyboardist”). […]
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October 12, 2014
The Sandblaster (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This theme, written by Roger Neumann*, was played for many decades every time that Ray Charles entered the stage.** The audience-tape of the San Carlos concert in 1971 captured one of the few known full versions. Ray Charles – piano; the line-up of the band must have been very similar to the known personnel of the October 1971 […]
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October 12, 2014
The Shadow Of Your Smile (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. The Johnny Mandel tune, in a robust arrangement for big band, penned by Steve Huffsteter. Live: ’69 LC Paris ’84 LC Ithaca ’90 LC ArtPark ’90 LC Antibes ’94 LC ValleyForge 02 LC Pasadena