Ray Charles
The Genius After Hours

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(P) 2001 (2015) Wax Time Records [692]

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Ray Charles The Genius After Hours on Numbered Limited Edition SACD

1961 Instrumental Set True to Its Name: The Sound of Charles Letting Loose in an Intimate Jazz Club

There's no doubting Ray Charles became a legend only after moving to Atlantic Records where, in the mid and late 1950s, he rung up a string of hits that redefined popular music and gave birth to R&B. Yet the label refused to shoehorn Charles into strictly sticking with vocal fare. Recognizing his jazz and blues roots, Atlantic both permitted and encouraged him to record instrumental sides with jazz combos and pursue piano-based material with which he was originally associated. [...more...]

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