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As a rock and roll, rhythm & blues, soul, blues, jazz, country and pop musician he helped to shape the sound of rhythm & blues. He brought a soulful sound to everything from country music ("I Can't Stop Loving You") to rock and roll ("Mess Around"), to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America The Beautiful." Frank Sinatra called him "the only genius in the business." |
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes 'For Lovers' CDs out on Dec. 22 Date: 20 Nov 2009
All About Jazz -
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony ...
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Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Play the Music of Ray Charles (Blu-ray) (DVD Talk)
Date: 15 Nov 2009
Recommended THE SPECIAL: Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis' inaugural collaboration, Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City , was one of my nicest DVD surprises of last year; what sounded, at first blush, like a singularly peculiar paring resulted in a homey, mellow, thoroughly enjoyable blues show by two unexpectedly well-suited collaborators. That show (and its corresponding album ...
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Students at Evansville schools give salute to veterans Date: 11 Nov 2009
Evansville Courier & Press -
Numerous Evansville schools paid tribute to military veterans Tuesday. Joshua Academy's second-grade classes offered a musical salute that began with the "Star Spangled Banner" but also included songs from artists as diverse as Woody Guthrie, Ray Charles and Lee Greenwood. At Harper Elementary School, fifth-graders conducted a program called "Americans We." Veterans who are friends and family ...
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Seattle Times: Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Plays Tribute to Ray Charles and Quincy Jones Date: 09 Nov 2009
All About Jazz -
Ray Charles and Quincy Jones were teenagers when they met in a Seattle nightclub, one of dozens clustered around Jackson Street in the 1940s. They were both aspiring jazz musicians, Charles a pianist, Jones a trumpeter. They were among many now- familiar names who got their start in Seattle: Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson, Gerald Wiggins, Floyd Standifer. Jones and Charles eventually achieved ...
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Earshot Jazz Festival celebrated the fundamentals Saturday with work of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones Date: 08 Nov 2009
Seattle Times -
The Earshot Jazz Festival addresses the question, "what is jazz," mostly by looking forward and outward. But sometimes it looks inward and to the past as it did Saturday night, when the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra performed the work of Ray Charles and Quincy Jones before a full house at the Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall.
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Strombo Reveals Details Of New CBC Radio Show Date: 06 Nov 2009
ChartAttack.com -
Do you like the music of Timber Timbre, Lamb Of God, Tom Waits and Ray Charles? Then George Stroumboulopoulos has a radio show for you. The host of CBC TV's The Hour relaunches his Strombo Show this Sunday (Nov. 8) on CBC Radio 2. It's an ambitious project: four-hours of commercial-free music, interviews and live performance broadcast from his home's basement studio, with a focus on genre ...
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Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra plays tribute to Ray Charles and Quincy Jones Date: 06 Nov 2009
Seattle Times -
Earshot Jazz Festival ends this weekend. A highlight is a concert with vocalist Dean Bowman that pays homage to an early Quincy Jones/Ray Charles recording project, "Genius + Soul = Jazz."
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Miami Producer Re-Releases DVD Concert Featuring Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis Date: 03 Nov 2009
Yahoo.com -
Major piece of rock & roll history was almost lost. Miami producer releases DVD concert featuring Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis
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