With Ray Charles Band
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October 7, 2014
Woody ‘n’ Bu (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreNot released. This instrumental was written by trombonist Steve Turre, who had played in Ray’s band in 1972, and later involved The Genius as a side man in his album In The Spur Of The Moment (1999). The audio quality of the file that survived from the Warsaw gig in 1984 is better than the video’s. ’84 LC Warsaw (track […]
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June 6, 2014
Ray Charles At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1970)
Read moreOn 1, 2 and 4 October 1970 Ray Charles gave a total of six concerts at La Salle Pleyel in Paris.* Audio recordings of two shows have survived (see below). A third concert was the subject of a 4m15s news item by Gérard Duclos, broadcast by TF 1 on 3 October, covering Ray’s preparations for […]
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September 2, 2013
Ray Charles 6 Times Live At Tramps, NYC (1995)
Read moreRay Charles at Tramps. David Hoffman in the background. Photo by Rahav Segev. In 1995, from September 7 to 9, Ray Charles and his band were booked for Tramps’ 20th Anniversary Celebration in New York. I posted before about one – bootlegged – concert in these series (identical to show #5, below). But recently Wolfgang’s […]
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August 29, 2013
An Incomplete Audio Of Ray Charles’ 2nd A Fool For You Ballet-Concert Series (1989)
Read moreMay 12, 1989 Wolfgang’s Concert Vault can’t be praised enough for sharing their huge catalog of American live music with their internet audience. Their only flaw is that they often don’t know exactly what they’re publishing. A recent file of a Ray Charles performance at the “ST Theatre” in New York, taped on 12 May […]
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July 6, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The Wolf Trap (1997)
Read moreOn June 21, 1997 Ray Charles gave a concert at the Wolf Trap in Vienna (VA). An audience-taped recording, with a very reasonable quality has survived. Woody ‘n’ Bu (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solos KS – tp, RJ – ts, EV – p Unidentified instrumental* (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solos AW – ts, TM – […]
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July 6, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The ArtPark (1990)
Read moreOn 20 June 1990 Ray Charles played at the ArtPark in Lewiston. An audience-taped recording can be found here. 1. Sister Sadie – partial (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solo Scott Frillman – bs 2. Fire Up (The Ray Charles Orchestra) 3. The Shadow Of Your Smile (The Ray Charles Orchestra) 4. Unidentified instrumental (The Ray Charles […]
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April 8, 2013
Ray Charles Live In Saratoga Springs (1988)
Read moreOn 20 and 21 August 1988 the Ray Charles aggregation headlined the JVC Jazz Festival at the Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs (NY). Someone in the audience taped the show on the 21st. Here you can listen to it. The setlist* was: Bacio (Ray Charles Orchestra) (Jeff Kaye – tp; Armin Marmolejo – tb) […]
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December 27, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Moscow (1994)
Read moreAnnouncement 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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November 11, 2012
Six Instrumentals From The Mexico Concert (1975)
Read moreOn 6 and 7 December 1975 the Ray Charles group played a series of concerts in Mexico City. I wrote earlier about a ‘board mix’ version of Cherry, but it turns out that all of the instrumentals that were performed by the Ray Charles Orchestra have also survived, coming from the same tape recording. The […]
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September 10, 2012
Ray Charles In New Haven (1985)
Read moreSource: Topfoto. On 8 June 1985 Ray Charles and his group gave a concert at the Shubert Performing Arts Center in New Haven. The show was taped from the audience. The audio quality is a little less than mediocre. The setlist was: Project S (Ray Charles Orchestra) Intro Let the Good Times Roll Georgia On […]
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May 14, 2012
Ray Charles’ UGC From The Wyndham Estate (2002)
Read moreNowadays, whenever a musician picks up his instrument, people flip on their mobile phone cams, tape it, and share the footage on the Interweb. The phenomenon of audience-taped, web-shared concert recordings really took off in 2005, with the launch of YouTube. Just a bit too late for Ray. Of Ray Charles’ concerts I only know […]
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February 20, 2012
Ray Charles In Brussels (1975)
Read moreA collector of Ray Charles records and recordings recently provided me with a copy of an odd tape, with an uncertain provenance. What he knows is that the five tunes that are on the recording come from a radio program that was aired by the French station France Inter, and presented by Julien Delli Fiori. […]