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In Reply to: RE: Ray Charles + Basie Orchestra : y'all need to hear this posted by mschlack on October 12, 2007 at 14:55:33

*****if your appreciation of Charles runs more to the hard R&B blues side, or the smokey jazz side, you may find this a bit too much.******

No real argument here. I hint at that in comments I made elsewhere. But you may find that Ray Charles, himself, set the tempo and delivery style. That is where and who he was in 1975. Long gone were 1955 and 1965. Charles was great in the in the 50s *and* the 70s just as surely as Louis Armstrong was great in 1935 and also 1955. But there, in both men, was clearly an ongoing evolving of their greatness, a "renaissance", if you will (see below), which took them to a different place at different points in their careers.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I found "Genius Loves Company" "a bit too much" (I could not have said it better myself). But I find the content and the delivery in Ray Sings Basie Swings for Ray, "the Raelettes", and the Count Basie Orchestra to be *extremely* satisfying, especially when put in perspective of where Ray was in circa 1975.

Interestingly, yesterday I found another Ray Charles Lp in my collection titled "Renaissance". I have not listened to it yet. (I don't even remember it). It was released in 1975. The name of the label: Crossover

Robert C. Lang

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