With David Fathead Newman

  • November 17, 2014

    Bill for Bennie (By David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960. Recorded on November 5, 1958 at the Atlantic Recording Studio, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd.

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  • November 10, 2014

    Hard Times (By David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, November 1958 (1960).Single (A, Part 1; B, Part 2): Atlantic 5002, 1960. Soul jazz pur sang. Recorded on November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York. David Newman – alto saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Marcus Belgrave – trumpet; Hank Crawford – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis – bass; Milt Turner – […]

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  • October 27, 2014

    Mean to Me (By David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960. Recording Date: November 5, 1958 at the Atlantic Recording Studio, in New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford.

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  • October 15, 2014

    Sweet Eyes (With David Fathead Newman)

    Album: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960. Recording date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studio, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd.

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  • October 11, 2014

    The Thirteenth Floor (Ft. David Newman)

    Unreleased (it’s uncertain if Ray played on this one with the combo, and if a recording has survived ). The tune is mentioned as Thirteen floor in the Montreux Jazz Festival’s database, as a part of the Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie concert on 13 July 1978. It was no doubt added to the setlist by Fathead (see below), who […]

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  • October 11, 2014

    The Way You Look Tonight

    Album (CD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, XIII Bis Records 640543 2, 11 January 2005 (2000). On August 10, 1999 the Jazz In Marciac festival announced a surprise package: the “Ray Charles Quartet – with special guest David ‘Fathead’ Newman”. Having to record this song with Steve Turre just a few days later (be it in a different arrangement), gave Ray […]

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  • October 10, 2014

    Tin Tin Deo (With David Fathead Newman)

    Album: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960. Recording date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studio, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (ts), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd. Audio here.

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  • October 8, 2014

    Willow Weep For Me (With David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960 (November 1958). Album (DVD): Ray Charles à Montreux 1978, S.p., S.a. Recording Date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd. Live: Twenty […]

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