“Genius+Soul=Jazz” by Ray Charles - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1961 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
Released February, 1961. A side track jazz album, tending towards the instrumental, recorded with several members of the Count Basie Orchestra. Phillip Guilbeau is featured extensively on trumpet, and Ray plays the Hammond organ for the first time on a recording. “One Mint Julep” became Ray’s first instrumental hit, reaching #1 on the R&B charts and #8 on the pop charts. The jazz hounds will love it… for me it’s average at best, occasionally sinking into the dire…
The Jukebox Rebel
26–Jul–2008
Tracklist |
A1 | [03:30] Ray Charles - From The Heart (Ray Charles Robinson) Jazz |
A2 | [04:28] Ray Charles - I’ve Got News For You (Ray Alfred) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
A3 | [03:14] Ray Charles - Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons) Jazz |
A4 | [02:39] Ray Charles - Let’s Go (Ray Charles Robinson) Jazz |
A5 | [03:02] Ray Charles - One Mint Julep (Rudy Toombs) Jazz |
B1 | [03:38] Ray Charles - I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (William Weldon, Roy Jacobs) Jazz |
B2 | [03:35] Ray Charles - Stompin’ Room Only (Howard Marks) Jazz |
B3 | [04:28] Ray Charles - Mister C (Ray Charles Robinson) Jazz |
B4 | [02:35] Ray Charles - Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Jazz |
B5 | [05:05] Ray Charles - Birth Of The Blues (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson) Jazz |