Ray Charles

• 2-CD BOX SET

• 16 PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED RECORDINGS OF THE EARLY 60'

• PRIX DE L'ACADEMIE DU JAZZ

This 2 CD set presents, for the fi rst time in its entirety and in stereo, Ray Charles’ performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, plus a selection of previously unreleased recordings from the years 1960 to 1962 focusing on his often underrated talents as an instrumentalist playing piano, organ and alto saxophone, as well as on his supreme skill at singing and playing the blues.

FEATURING::

• Boris Alexandrov, Chœurs De L'armée Rouge, Willis Conover, Ray Charles, James Moody, Neal Hefti, Hefti Neal, Max Roach, Sam Theard, Fleecie Moore, J. Greene, Titus Turner, Ray Charles, Henry Glover, S. Gorrell, Hoagy Carmichael, Hank Crawford, Bobby Timmons, Shorty Rogers, Rudolph Toombs, Horace Silver, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alfred Roy, Cecile Gant, Raymond Leveen, R. Jacobs, Andy Razaf, Raymond Charles Offenberg

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• 01. Introduction by Willis Conover
• 02. The Story
• 03. Lil' Darlin'
• 04. Blues Waltz
• 05. Let the Good Times Roll
• 06. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin
• 07. Sticks and Stones
• 08. I Believe To My Soul
• 09. My Baby (I Love Her Yes I Do)
• 10. Drown in My Own Tears
• 11. What'd I Say
• 12. Georgia On My Mind
• 13. Hallelujah I Love Her So

• CD TWO
• 01. Blue Stone
• 02. Moanin'
• 03. Popo
• 04. Lil' Darlin 2
• 05. One Mint Julep
• 06. From the Heart
• 07. Doodlin'
• 08. Come Rain or Come Shine
• 09. I've Got News for You
• 10. I Wonder
• 11. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
• 12. What'd I Say 2
• 13. Georgia on My Mind 2
• 14. Dialog Between Both “Ray Charles”
• 15. What'd I Say 3