Every week I look over the finest jazz releases and lay some key tracks down into one place. Usually, I mix it up but when Concord dropped a mess of long out-of-print sides from Ray Charles, I knew who the week belonged to.
Brother Ray excelled at jazz, R&B, blues, standards, soul, pop, country, whatever. Truly great artists are genres of one and Ray is one of history's best.
The finest interpretive singers bring out new dimensions to songs you think you know. Take Ray's masterful cover of Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years." Ray takes the line "It's all gonna fade" and makes it the devastating centerpiece of a tale about the passing of time and the fragility of life. This cut and the 14 others give you a pretty good idea of the breadth of Ray Charles' work.
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