VA - JustElectro (06.11.2010)

2010 box set from the Soul/Jazz/Rock legend containing five original albums from the Atlantic vaults packaged together in one great release! Features the albums Genius + Soul = Jazz (1960), The Genius After Hours (1961), The Genius Hits The Road (1960), The Genius Of Ray Charles (1959) and The Genius Sings The Blues (1961).

Personnel: Ray Charles (vocals, alto saxophone, piano); David "Fathead" Newman (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Emmott Dennis, Bennie Crawford (baritone saxophone); Joe Bridgewater, Lee Harper, Marcus Belgrave, John Hunt (trumpet); Richie Goldberg, William Peoples (drums).

TRACKLIST

Disc: 1 - The Great Ray Charles (1957)

1. Ray
2. Melancholy Baby
3. Black Coffee
4. There's No You
5. Doodlin'
6. Sweet Sixteen Bars
7. I Surrender Dear
8. Undecided

Disc: 2 - Ray Charles At Newport (1958)

1. Night Time Is The Right Time
2. In A Little Spanish Town
3. I Got A Woman
4. Blues Waltz
5. Hot Rod
6. Talkin' 'Bout You
7. Sherry
8. Fool For You

Disc: 3 - The Genius Of Ray Charles (1959)

1. Am I Blue
2. Indeed I Do
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. Two Years Of Torture
5. It Had To Be You
6. Alexander's Ragtime Band
7. You Won't Let Me Go
8. Tell Me You'll Wait For Me
9. Just For A Thrill
10. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
11. Let The Good Times Roll
12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

Disc: 4 - The Genius Sings The Blues (1961)

1. Early In The Mornin'
2. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
3. Midnight Hour
4. Right Time
5. Feelin' Sad
6. Ray's Blues
7. I'm Movin' On
8. I Believe To My Soul
9. Nobody Cares
10. Mr Charles's Blues
11. Some Day Baby
12. I Wonder Who

Disc: 5 - The Genius after hours (1961)

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

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