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An hour and forty-five minute film of a young Ray Charles performing in Antibes France in 1961 premiered at the Egyptian Theater on Wednesday night. The Film was culled from footage shot in 16 millimeter black & white for French national Television fifty years ago. The restoration job was a result of a remarkable collaboration between San Diego based “Reelin’ In The Years”, a company dedicated to restoring and reissuing live music performances (www.reelintheyears.com.) and INA (ina.fr), the French concern created to preserve French radio and television archival collections. *
The performance featuring a seven piece band (Hank Crawford, David Newman etc) and the four Raylets is not only remarkable for it’s raw energy but for the mere fact that it was restored to such high quality. The original film had actually been physically cut and spliced together with other artist’s performances from the three day Jazz Festival to make a series of programs that aired on French National Television. Luckily for the filmmakers and the audience alike there had been a separate audio recording made for French Radio as well.
PURE GOLD FOR A RAY FAN LIKE MOI!
* I'm sure the BBC will be snapping this up....
BN.
An hour and forty-five minute film of a young Ray Charles performing in Antibes France in 1961 premiered at the Egyptian Theater on Wednesday night. The Film was culled from footage shot in 16 millimeter black & white for French national Television fifty years ago. The restoration job was a result of a remarkable collaboration between San Diego based “Reelin’ In The Years”, a company dedicated to restoring and reissuing live music performances (www.reelintheyears.com.) and INA (ina.fr), the French concern created to preserve French radio and television archival collections. *
The performance featuring a seven piece band (Hank Crawford, David Newman etc) and the four Raylets is not only remarkable for it’s raw energy but for the mere fact that it was restored to such high quality. The original film had actually been physically cut and spliced together with other artist’s performances from the three day Jazz Festival to make a series of programs that aired on French National Television. Luckily for the filmmakers and the audience alike there had been a separate audio recording made for French Radio as well.
PURE GOLD FOR A RAY FAN LIKE MOI!
* I'm sure the BBC will be snapping this up....
BN.
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