'94 LC Moscow

  • November 11, 2014

    Giving Up (With The Raelettes, Ft. Trudy Cohran / Tonette McKinney)

    Unreleased. Based on Donny Hathaway’s 1972 re-interpretation of Gladys Knight’s minor hit from 1964. Ray and the girls kept on to Donny’s tempo: a long, slow, soaring love lament. It was performed many times by Trudy Cohran, and (after she left The Raelettes) also by Tonette McKinney. Tokyo 1990 (starts at 1’14’40) with Trudy Cohran: Moscow 1994 with […]

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  • December 27, 2012

    Ray Charles Live In Moscow (1994)

    Announcement on the Russian  torrent website [name withheld]. Through the Jazz On The Screen database I was aware of  two concerts by Ray Charles at the Russia Concert Hall in Moscow on 13 and 14 July 1994, sponsored by Alfa-Bank, and of the fact that the second one, directed by Sergei Antipov, was recorded for […]

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