With Ray Charles Band
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November 13, 2014
Easy Living (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Easy Living is the jazz standard from 1937, written by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin for the film with the same title. James Polk arranged the tune for the Ray Charles Orchestra. Live:’82 LC Antibes’89 LC Osaka’92 LC Antibes’97 LC WolfTrap
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November 12, 2014
Everybody’s Blues (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This Quincy Jones-penned tune was performed at the Christmas Special TV show in Takanawa, on or around 24 Decmber 1990. The solos were delivered by Jeff Kaye and Ted Murdock on trumpets, Ernest Vantrease on keyboards, Kenny Carr on guitar, and Benoît Grey on bass. Chuck Parrish, Jeff Kaye, Ted Murdock, Kenny Rampton – trumpets; Steve […]
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November 12, 2014
Fire Up (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Show opener – much mellower than the title suggests. Number 323 in the Orchestra’s book. But who wrote it? Live:’89 LC Paris’90 LC ArtPark’95 LC Tramps – Stream available
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November 12, 2014
Flying Home (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. A typical Lionel Hampton tune – written by him, Benny Goodman and Eddie DeLange. It was recorded only once, during one of the concerts at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, from 22 to 28 May 1963. Live:’63 LC Paris
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November 12, 2014
For Her (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. The album was recorded with the Ray Charles Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, Bob Coassin – trumpets; Ken Tussing, Glenn Childress, Steve Davis, Wally Huff – trombones; […]
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November 11, 2014
Forty Pound Limit (aka I Don’t Know, aka Mr. Ray Charles) (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum DVD: Ray Charles Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, November 2004; DVD/CD: Geneon/Pioneer B000667GDM, November 2004; DVD: SHE B0000648YH, June 2006; DVD: Eagle Rock B000VZBCVU, October 2007; Blu Ray DVD: Eagle Rock B001JL2V2E, December 2008. In an earlier article on this tune I presented it as an unidentified instrumental. I wrote that “In many sources, […]
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November 11, 2014
Frenesi (With The Ray Charles Sextet)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles In Person, Atlantic 8039, May 1960 (1959). Ray recorded this Alberto Dominguez tune only once, live, in Atlanta at the Herndon Stadium on May 29, 1959. (Charles Carpenter in 1939 added lyrics to the song, using the pseudonym Ray Charles…). Marcus Belgrave, John Hunt – trumpet, David Newman – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone; Hank […]
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November 11, 2014
From The Heart
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, on 26 and 27 December 1960. I’ll never forget first hearing these first few Hammond notes. Ray Charles – organ; Philip Guilbeau (solo), Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Eugene (Snooky) Young – trumpets; Henry Coker, Urbie […]
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November 11, 2014
Ghana (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreRay Charles Orchestra – Zurich 1961. TCB (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series #41), [2016]. The band was only recorded playing this instrumental during their brief Europe tour in October 1961. Written by Ernie Wilkins, arranged by Quincy Jones. David Fathead took the solo on flute, Leroy Cooper on bari, and Sonny Forriest on guitar. The […]
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November 11, 2014
Going Home (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973. Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Teddy Edwards. With Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave – trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) – trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? […]
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November 10, 2014
Golden Boy (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970. The album was recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Ray Charles – piano; Bobby Bryant, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell, trumpets; Glen Childress, Henry Coker, Joe Randazzo, (+ Edward Comegys? or Fred Murrell? or David Phelps?) – trombones; J. […]
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November 10, 2014
Goodness Gracious (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Goodness Gracious is a nice riff turned into a rocking big band ditty. Ray Charles called the tune only so now and then, but it stayed on the repertoire of the Orchestra well into the 1990s. Taped twice, at the 1967 Berlin concert (the best of the two surviving recordings), with Barry Rillera taking excellent care […]