Beggar baroque ... Ray Charles Easter Marathon Thread

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... pick your favourite track by the master and post it here for easter and see how many bunnies we can find ...

[clive heath]

Will this do..........?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Rbkcxiibw

yes indeed!

[Serial_Apologist]

RC doing the Sinatra thang didn't work for my school pals, but the little obbligato things always gave those ballad interpretations a touch of class, I reckon - as in the case with the trombone interjections on Come Rain Come Shine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxs3jGy9k9w

As period as a Hostess Trolley...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The perfect trombone is Bob Brookmeyer who also arranged it and a lot of that album and more.

Can't post the link but "Ray Charles Presents Fathead" from 59 does it for me...Tin Tin Deo is a joy.

Ray on smack (to '65)....inspired, truly great and hip.

Ray on gin et sugar....less so.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

will this cut it for you El Senor [no Tin Tin]

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Lovely track Calum. I always thought it a real shame that Ray's 60s big band with Tina Brooks, Fathead, Wilkerson, Johnny Coles, Gracun Moncur, Keg Johnson etc didnt record in a straight jazz setting. There are a few taster bits on concert video.

"Ray went out and hired all the hip players he really liked...all of them junkies." Joe Adams, Ray's manager...who had them all fired.

BTW, there are tapes of Ray's band with Ed Blackwell on drums from the same classic'57 Carnegie Hall Monk/Trane date.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Tina is on this from 63 in Brazil and it is a big band blowing set ... {fathead and Tina head to head at 5' 50"]

oh yoof blessed days of yoof and the Hammersmith Odeon ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

more yoof

in 1961 spent the summer working in the silverware department at Derry & Toms in Kensington High ST., shovelling sale cutlery into carrier bags; in the coffee bar [Flamingo???] over the road this was the Ray Charles band that was on the juke box ....

... and i saved the remaining loot to buy my double bass, a fine 1930s instrument from Prague sold by a little instrument shop in Kings Road Hammersmith that was of course kitting out Shadows clones ... [and worse] ... Ray Charles single handedly saved popular music in Europe, it always became a lot more sexy after he toured a country

[Byas'd Opinion]

A bit slower than the original version, but still great.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

love that track byas'd!!

[Quarky]

Ray Charles - my intro to black music - one of my all-time favourites::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoprzq4LsUQ

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I really think Ray's central importance in bringing, certainly my generation, to jazz can never be over stated. And with no loss of quality and totally on his own terms.

"The prime stuff just dont never ever date...fkg remarkable."... The Ducks.

BN

BTW, Easter...if you are offered a duck egg, just say "fek off you Tory/Clegg fascist." Or "U baldy Ratbag" if it's IDS.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]