Ray Charles In Concert is a limited edition compilation album of live performances by Ray Charles

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

 released in 2003 by Rhino Handmade. The tracks were all previously released on 5 different Ray Charles live concert albums released between 1958 and 1975.

Track listing

Disc one:

1. "Night Time Is the Right Time" (Ozzie Cadena
   Ozzie Cadena
   Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena was an American record producer with Savoy Records and Prestige Records who recorded gospel and jazz music in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and helped popularize jazz music in Los Angeles.-Background:...
   
   , Lew Herman) – 3:58
2. "Talkin' 'Bout You" (Ray Charles) – 4:30
3. "A Fool for You
   A Fool for You
   "A Fool for You" was a bluesy, proto-soul single recording written by Ray Charles and released by him in 1955 on the Atlantic label.-Personnel:*Lead vocal and piano by Ray Charles*Instrumentation by the Ray Charles band*Produced by Jerry Wexler-Covers:...
   
   " (Charles) – 7:05
4. "Swanee River Rock" (Charles) - 2:07
5. "The Spirit-Feel" (Milt Jackson
   Milt Jackson
   Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...
   
   ) - 4:23
6. "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver
   Sy Oliver
   Melvin "Sy" Oliver was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader...
   
   ) - 2:39
7. "What'd I Say
   What'd I Say
   According to Charles' autobiography, "What'd I Say" was accidental when he improvised it to fill time at the end of a concert in December 1958. He asserts that he never tested songs on audiences before recording them, but "What'd I Say" is an exception...
   
   " (Charles) - 4:22
8. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Johnny Mercer
   Johnny Mercer
   John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
   
   , Harold Arlen
   Harold Arlen
   Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
   
   ) - 7:40
9. "Hit the Road Jack
   Hit the Road Jack
   "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by rhythm and bluesman Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an a capella demo sent to Art Rupe, available on the Memory Pain CD vol. 2, Specialty Records SPCD-7027-2. It became famous after it was recorded by singer-pianist Ray Charles. It hit number...
   
   " (Percy Mayfield
   Percy Mayfield
   Percy Mayfield was an American songwriter famous for the songs "Hit the Road Jack" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love", as well as a successful rhythm and blues artist known for his smooth vocal style.-Career:...
   
   ) - 2:20
10. "The Danger Zone" (Mayfield) - 3:45
11. "Bye Bye Love" (Felice Bryant
    Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
    Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...
    
    , Boudleaux Bryant
    Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
    Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...
    
    ) - 2:00
12. "Georgia On My Mind
    Georgia on My Mind
    "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...
    
    " (Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael
    Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...
    
    , Stuart Gorrell
    Stuart Gorrell
    Stuart Graham Steven Gorrell is best known for writing the lyrics for the song Georgia on My Mind.Gorrell attended Indiana University; there he became friends with fellow student Hoagy Carmichael...
    
    ) - 6:16
13. "One Mint Julep
    One Mint Julep
    "One Mint Julep" is a rhythm and blues song written by Rudy Toombs that became a hit for The Clovers. It was recorded by Atlantic Records in New York City on December 19, 1951 and released in March of 1952. It was one of the first "drinking songs" to become a hit and one of the first to feature a...
    
    " (Rudolph Toombs
    Rudy Toombs
    Rudolph "Rudy" Toombs , born in Monroe, Louisiana, was an American black songwriter who wrote "Teardrops from My Eyes", Ruth Brown's first number one R&B successful song...
    
    ) - 3:01
14. "I Believe to my Soul" (Charles) - 3:50
15. "Unchain My Heart
    Unchain My Heart (song)
    "Unchain My Heart" is a song written by Bobby Sharp and recorded first in 1961 by Ray Charles and in 1963 by Trini Lopez and later by many others. Sharp, a drug addict at the time, sold the song to Teddy Powell for $50. Powell demanded half the songwriting credit. Sharp later successfully fought...
    
    "(Teddy Powell
    Teddy Powell
    Teddy Powell was an American jazz guitarist, composer and big band leader...
    
    , Robert Sharp, Jr.) - 3:07
16. "Baby, Don't You Cry" (Johnson, Washington) – 2:42

Disc two:

1. "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" (Charles) – 3:00
2. "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold
   Eddy Arnold
   Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
   
   , Cindy Walker
   Cindy Walker
   Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring...
   
   ) – 3:10
3. "I Got a Woman
   I Got a Woman
   "I Got a Woman" is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B/soul musician Ray Charles and released as a single in December 1954 on the Atlantic label as Atlantic 45-1050 b/w "Come Back Baby." Both sides later appeared on his 1957 album Ray Charles .-Origin:The song builds on...
   
   " (Charles, Richard) – 6:11
4. "Hide nor Hair" (Mayfield) – 2:55
5. "Margie" (Con Conrad, Benny Davis, Russel Robinson) – 2:51
6. "Don't Set Me Free" (Powell) – 3:36
7. "Let the Good Times Roll
   Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan song)
   "Let the Good Times Roll" is a song was recorded in 1946 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, and became a # 2 hit on the R&B chart in the United States....
   
   " (Sam Theard, Fleecie Moore) – 3:09
8. "Busted
   Busted (Harlan Howard song)
   -Cover versions:* Johnny Cash, with the Carter Family, reached #13 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in 1963.* Ray Charles reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963. This was from his album Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul...
   
   " (Harlan Howard
   Harlan Howard
   Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
   
   ) – 2:10
9. "Don't Let Her Know" (Buck Owens
   Buck Owens
   Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
   
   , Don Rich, Bonnie Owens) – 4:23
10. "Then We'll Be Home" (Sadye Shepard) – 4:02
11. "I Can't Stop Loving You
    I Can't Stop Loving You
    "I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30, 1957, for RCA Victor Records...
    
    " (Don Gibson
    Don Gibson
    Donald Eugene "Don" Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.-Biography:Don Gibson was...
    
    ) – 3:15
12. "Feel So Bad" (Leslie Temple, James Johnsonl) – 9:57
13. "Living for the City
    Living for the City
    "Living for the City" is a 1973 hit single by Stevie Wonder for the Tamla label, from his Innervisions album. Reaching #8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and #1 on the R&B chart, the record is driven by a slow bass synth groove that manages to exude a certain amount of tension, an appropriate...
    
    " (Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder
    Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
    
    ) – 8:06

(Disc 1, tracks 1, 2, 3 originally released on Ray Charles at Newport

Ray Charles at Newport

Ray Charles at Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. All tracks from this album, along with all tracks from his 1959 Herndon Stadium performance in Atlanta, were also released on the 1987 Atlantic compilation, Ray Charles, Live...

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(Disc 1, track 4 originally released on Ray Charles Live)

(Disc 1, tracks 5, 6, 7 originally released on Ray Charles in Person

Ray Charles in Person

In Person is a live album recorded by Ray Charles on May 28, 1959 on a rainy night in Atlanta, Georgia at Morris Brown College's Herndon Stadium. All tracks from this album together with those from Ray Charles at Newport were also released on the 1987 Atlantic compilation CD, Ray Charles Live.The...

)

(Disc 1, tracks 8 ~ 15 originally released on Berlin, 1962)

(Disc 1, track 16 and disk 2, tracks 1 ~ 6 originally released on Ray Charles: Live in Concert

Live in Concert (Ray Charles album)

Live in Concert is a live album by Ray Charles released in 1965 by ABC-Paramount Records. The recording was made at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in September, 1964 following a tour of Japan....

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(Disc 2, tracks 7 ~ 13 originally released on Ray Charles: Live in Japan)

1958 Newport Jazz Festival performance

(Disk 1, tracks 1~4)

• Ray Charles – piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , vocals
• Marcus Belgrave
  Marcus Belgrave
  Marcus Belgrave is a jazz trumpet player from Detroit, born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He has recorded with a variety of famous musicians, bandleaders, and record labels since the 1950s. Notable among them are: Ray Charles, Charles Mingus, Gunther Schuller, Motown Records, Tribe Records, Blue Note...
  
   – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Lee Harper – trumpet
• David "Fathead" Newman
  David Newman (jazz musician)
  David "Fathead" Newman was an American jazz saxophonist.-Biography:Born in Corsicana, Texas, Newman's professional career as a musician began in 1954 as a member of the Ray Charles Band....
  
   – alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  , tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  
• Bennie "Hank" Crawford
  Hank Crawford
  Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter...
  
   – baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
  
  
• Edgar Willis – bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Richie Goldberg – drums
• The Raeletts – backing vocals
  • Margie Hendrix
  • Pat Lyle
  • Darlene MacRea
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  Nesuhi Ertegun
  Nesuhi Ertegun was a Turkish record producer and executive of Atlantic Records and WEA International.-Background:Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Nesuhi and his family, including younger brother Ahmet, moved to Washington, D.C...
  
   – producer

1959 Atlanta concert

(Disk 1, tracks 5~7)

• Ray Charles – piano, vocals, alto saxophone (on "The Spirit Feel")
• Margie Hendrix – vocals
• Marcus Belgrave – trumpet
• John Hunt – trumpet
• David "Fathead" Newman – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Bennie "Hank" Crawford – baritone saxophone
• Edgar Willis – bass
• Teagle Fleming – drums
• The Raeletts – backing vocals
  • Margie Hendrix
  • Pat Lyle
  • Darlene MacRea
• Zenas Sears – producer

1962 Berlin concert

(Disk 1, tracks 8 ~ 15)

• Ray Charles – piano, vocals
• Marcus Belgrave – trumpet
• Wallace Davenport
  Wallace Davenport
  Wallace Foster Davenport was a United States jazz trumpeter. Davenport has been one of the few traditional jazz musicians of the 1930s who later branched out into swing and bop styles, as well as backing gospel and R&B vocalists during an extensive career in eight different decades.Davenport was...
  
   – trumpet
• Philip Guilbeau – trumpet
• John Hunt – trumpet
• Henderson Chambers
  Henderson Chambers
  Henderson Chambers was an American jazz trombonist.Chambers studied at Leland College and Morehouse College, then joined Neil Montgomery's band in 1931...
  
   – trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• James Harbert – trombone
• Frederic "Keg" Johnson
  Keg Johnson
  Frederic Homer Johnson was a jazz trombonist.He was born in Dallas, Texas 19 November 1908. His father was a choir director there and also worked at a local Studebaker plant where Keg also worked for a while....
  
   – trombone
• Dickie Wells – trombone
• Bennie "Hank" Crawford
  Hank Crawford
  Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter...
  
   – alto saxophone
• Rudy Powell – alto saxophone
• David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Don Wilkerson – tenor saxophone
• Leroy "Hog" Cooper – baritone saxophone
• Elbert "Sonny" Forriest
  Sonny Forriest
  Sonny Forriest was born Elbert McKinley Forriest on May 21, 1934 in Pendleton, North Carolina and died on January 10, 1999 in Capital Heights, Maryland. He was an American guitar player. He is best known for playing guitar for The Coasters.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Edgar Willis – bass
• Edward "Bruno" Carr – drums
• The Raeletts – backing vocals
  • Gwen Berry
  • Margie Hendrix
  • Pat Lyle
  • Darlene MacRea
• Norman Granz
  Norman Granz
  Norman Granz was an American jazz music impresario and producer.Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960...
  
   – producer

1964 Los Angeles concert

(Disk 1, track 16 and disk 2, tracks 1 ~ 6)

• Ray Charles – piano, vocals
• Oliver Beener – trumpet
• Wallace Davenport – trumpet
• Philip Guilbeau – trumpet
• John Hunt – trumpet, flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
  
• Henderson Chambers – trombone
• James Harbert – trombone
• Frederic "Keg" Johnson – trombone
• Julian Priester
  Julian Priester
  Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...
  
   – trombone
• Bennie "Hank" Crawford – alto saxophone
• William "Buddy" Pearson – alto saxophone, flute
• David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone
• Leroy "Hog" Cooper – baritone saxophone
• Elbert "Sonny" Forriest – guitar
• Edgar Willis – bass
• Wilbert Hogan
  G.T. Hogan
  Wilbert Granville Thodore Hogan Jr. was an American jazz drummer. He used both Granville and Wilbert professionally, and is credited variously with names and initials on albums....
  
   – drums
• The Raeletts – backing vocals
  • Gwen Berry
  • Lillian Forte
  • Pat Lyle
  • Darlene MacRae
• Sid Feller
  Sid Feller
  Sidney "Sid" Feller was an American conductor and arranger, best known for his work with Ray Charles. He worked with Charles on hundreds of songs including Georgia on My Mind and worked as Charles' conductor while on tour...
  
  – producer

1975 Tokyo and Yokohama concerts

(Disk 2, tracks 7 ~ 13)

• Ray Charles – piano, vocals, producer
• Bob Caulsen – trumpet
• Johnny Coles – trumpet
• Jack Evans – trumpet
• Steve Davis – trombone
• Wally Huff – trombone
• Ken Tussing – trombone
• Eddie Pratt – alto saxophone
• Clifford Solomon – alto saxophone
• James Clay – tenor saxophone
• Andrew Ennis – tenor saxophone
• Leroy "Hog" Cooper – baritone saxophone
• Earnest Vantrease – organ
• Tony Mathews – guitar
• Edgar Willis – bass
• Scott von Ravensberg – drums
• The Raeletts – backing vocals
  • Susaye Greene
  • Mable John
  • Vernita Moss
  • Estelle Yarborough