'90 RS Piano

  • November 17, 2014

    Blues (With Marian McPartland)

    Unreleased. Played during the Piano Jazz episode on January 9, 1990,  taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York. You can listen to it here (the improvisation before Things Ain’t What They Used To Be).

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  • October 22, 2014

    Ray And Marian’s Blues (With Marian McPartland)

    Unreleased On January 9, 1990 Marian McPartland invited Ray Charles for her NPR radio show Piano Jazz, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York (first broadcast on April 6, 1991). They improvised a blues; you can listen to it here (i.e. the last musical sequence of the program).

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  • October 15, 2014

    Summertime

    Unreleased. In 1990 Marian McPartland seduced Ray to lay down a beautiful solo version during their Piano Jazz meeting. You can listen to it here.

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  • October 11, 2014

    Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) [Intro: Untitled Blues] (With Marian McPartland)

    Unreleased. On 9 January 1990 Ray Charles was a guest at Marian McPartland’s NPR radio show Piano Jazz, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York (first broadcast on April 6, 1991). One of the many good things that happened was a brief version of this tune (music by Mercer Ellington and lyrics by Ted […]

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