Ray Charles

INCLUDES FREE MP3 ALBUM DOWNLOAD Plus 2 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential LP edition includes Charles’ sensational first live album, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival, originally released by Atlantic Records in November 1958, and long unavailable on vinyl. In addition to the original masterpiece, this WaxTime collector’s edition contains 2 bonus tracks from the same concert that were not included on the original Atlantic release.

PERSONNEL:

RAY CHARLES, vocals, piano & alto sax (on “Hot Rod” only), plus:

Bennie “Hank” Crawford (bs); David “Fathead” Newman (ts);
Lee Zedric Harper, Marcus Batisto Belgrave (tp); Edgar L. Wills (b); Richard Goldberg (d);
The Raelettes: Marjorie Hendricks (vocal solo on “The Right Time”),
Priscilla “Pat” Moseley Lyles, Ethel “Darlene” McCrea and Betty Smith (backing vocals).

Recorded “live” at The Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on July 5, 1958.

SIDE A:

01. THE RIGHT TIME
02. IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN
03. I GOT A WOMAN
04. BLUES WALTZ
05. SWANEE RIVER ROCK (*)

SIDE B

01. HOT ROD
02. TALKING ‘BOUT YOU
03. SHERRY
04. A FOOL FOR YOU
05. YES, INDEED! (*)

(*) Bonus tracks