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Ray Charles - The Genius After Hours Audio CD

A fair review of the Ray Charles "The Genius After Hours" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Ray Charles reviews here, or go back to the Ray Charles tabs.

Ray Charles Band: Ray Charles
Title: The Genius After Hours
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Release Date: 2001-11-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Genius After Hours 2: Ain't Misbehavin' 3: Dawn Ray 4: Joy Ride 5: Hornful Soul 6: Man I Love 7: Charlesville 8: Music, Music, Music

DID YOU SLEEP ON THIS???
You want straight ahead jazz with a little something extra on the piano, ask Ray. The genius could do it all. This one will let you cozy up to that special someone on one of those quiet nights.


True genius
The best known being Dave 'Fathead' Newman on Tenor Sax. As the title indicates this is lovely set of recordings of Ray Charles playing Blues/Jazz Piano either with a Trio or with various horn and/or Trumpet players.
Another well known musician featured is Oscar Pettiford on bass.

This set shows that even if Ray Charles had never sung a note in his life his Blues and Jazz Piano playing would have been good enough to make a good career out of. My favourite track is 'Joy Ride' a bebop (Parker) inspired blues variation which I'm fond of playing to friends and saying "Who's the Piano player?". Nobody has answered the question correctly yet! It just isn't a style of Piano playing you associate with Ray Charles.

The recordings were made in 1961 and the running time is only 38 minutes. Listening to them again recently it only confirmed my view that Ray Charles was one of the most important figures in black American music full stop.
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Ray plays straight ahead
Listen to Ray bop along side Joe as he stirs the soup on the brushes during "Dawn Ray". This is a rare opportunity to hear Ray playing straight ahead jazz with legends Joe Harris on drums and Oscar Pettiford walking the bass. Make no mistake this rhythm section swings hard; after all bop mastro Dizzy Gillespie hired Joe to play drums in his band during the mid 1940's. Enjoy all 38 minutes!

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What can you say? It's Ray Charles!
But if you do like him as I surely do, then this is a must have of his work if you don't have it. The only reason one might not like this would be because they simply don't like Ray Charles and that would be reason enough not to buy it.


Instumental Ray
And this CD showcases that side of his talent. A lot of folks forget that Ray Charles was a killer jazz-blues pianist. An all instrumental set that focuses on his jazz piano style with a heavy dose of the blues!
This is perfect late night listening. An especially nice are the trio cuts, which make up about half of the CD.
Late-night stripped down Ray with a serious case of the blues is what you get here!.


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