'84 LC Warsaw

• November 19, 2014

  All I Need (With The Raelettes)

  Album (2-CD): Ray Charles In Concert [in Warsaw], S.l., 2006. Who knows more about the origin of this song (who wrote it/who first performed it)? Jazz à Juan/Antibes, 1987 (ft. Elaine Woodard): Live: ’82 LC Beacon ’84 LC Warsaw – Released ’87 LC Antibes ’88 LC Oklahoma ’89 LC Osaka ’95 LC Greenville

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• October 12, 2014

  The Team (Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Unreleased. There may be a studio-recorded version from 1978 in the vaults of the Ray Charles Foundation (see below). The tune was first recorded during the 2 p.m. (televized) concert at the Warsaw Jamboree on October 27, 1984. Composed by trumpet player Tim Ouimette, who played in the Ray Charles Orchestra between 1978 and 1980. Ouimette […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Woody ‘n’ Bu (Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Not released. This instrumental was written by trombonist Steve Turre, who had played in Ray’s band in 1972, and later involved The Genius as a side man in his album In The Spur Of The Moment (1999). The audio quality of the file that survived from the Warsaw gig in 1984 is better than the video’s. ’84 LC Warsaw (track […]

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  February 8, 2012

  The Two Ray Charles Concerts At The Warsaw Jazz Jamboree (1984)

  Interior of 2-CD booklet. The release & media history of the concerts at the 1984 Warsaw Jazz Jamboree is really (really!) complicated. For me it started, quite simply, a few years ago, when I found two or three clips from a live concert on Youtube. Investigating the provenance of these clips a bit further for […]

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