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The Very Best of Ray Charles [Rhino] by Roy Haynes Ray Charles Willie Nelson Cecil Payne Urbie Green Billy Preston Julian Priester (CD, 2000)

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UPC4943674259076

eBay Product ID (ePID)7050154411

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2000

InstrumentPiano

GenreBlues

ArtistRoy Haynes, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Cecil Payne, Urbie Green, Billy Preston, Julian Priester

Release TitleThe Very Best of Ray Charles [Rhino]

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Additional informationPersonnel includes: Ray Charles (vocals, acoustic & electric pianos); Margei Hendrix, Willie Nelson (vocals); Wesley Jackson (guitar); Terry McMillan (harmonica); David "Fathead" Newman (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Donald Wilkerson (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Joe Bridgewater, Charles Whitley (trumpet); Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Julian Priester (trombone); Billy Preston (organ); Jimmy Bell (bass); Glenn Brooks, Roy Haynes (drums); The Raeletts (background vocals). Producers include: Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, Sid Feller, Creed Taylor, Joe Adams. Compilation producer: James Austin. Recorded between 1954 & 1984. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl. It's hard to dispute this disc's title; just about every song here was a hit, and many of them are certifiable classics of postwar American pop. This may be, in fact, the most representative one-disc Ray Charles best-of extant. It's impossible to quibble about the pulsating, minor-key pathos of Brother Ray's stinging prisoner-of-love plea "Unchain My Heart." Likewise the deeply-felt blues of "Drown in My Own Tears," the jazz/country hybrid "Busted," or the late-night piano-and-organ plaint "Let's Go Get Stoned." Another plus is that the salacious "What I'd Say" is represented by both parts I and II. Worth a reappraisal is the instrumental version of "One Mint Julep" (arrangement courtesy of Quincy Jones), which could have fit perfectly into one of the AUSTIN POWERS films.

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo