Ray Charles Live At Jazz In The Rockies (1982)
On September 4, 1982 the Ray Charles band performed at KUVO-FM’s Jazz In The Rockies, in Winter Park (CO). The other acts were The Charlie Haden Quartet/Quintet, Art Blakey, Chick Corea/Gary Burton, Pat Metheny/The Charlie Haden Duo, Betty Carter and her Trio, and Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition.
Recently, a reasonably good ‘audience taping’ of Brother Ray’s concert at the festival emerged. The setlist was without surprises:
- Intro Ray Charles
- Riding Thumb
- Busted
- Georgia On My Mind
- Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
- Just Because
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Intro Raelettes
- Guess Who I Saw Today
- Hit The Road Jack
- Crying Time
- Don’t Change On Me (intro to #13)
- I Can’t Stop Loving You
- I Want Your Love (EY – vo)
- Baby Please Don’t Go
- What’d I Say
- Outro
Probable line-up*: Carmell Jones, Carlos Chavez, Brian Pearcy, Dean Congin – tp; John Boice, Dan Marcus, Mayo Tiana, Steve Davis – tb; Ricky Woodard, Brian Mitchell – as, Clifford Solomon, Rudy Johnson – ts, Leroy Cooper – bs; Ernest Vantrease – kb; Tony Matthews – g; Jeff Takiguchi – el-b; Rick Kirkland – dm. The Raelettes**: Trudy Cohran, Anne Johnson, Janice Mitchell, Elaine Woodard, Estella Yarbrough.
* Inferred from the line-up at the Constitution Hall concert on November 1, 1982.
** Specified in source materials.
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