With Marian McPartland

• October 12, 2014

  The Man I Love (With Marian McPartland)

  Unreleased. Ray first recorded the tune in 1956, for The Genius After Hours. This intimate version was played during the wonderful Piano Jazz meeting with Marian McPartland on January 9, 1990, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York. Ray Charles – voc, p., el.p.; Marian McPartland – p. Here you can listen to it.

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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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