Name: The Genius Sings
Brand: Ray Charles

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DOL1070HB

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Colour

green

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Lasgo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0889397006327

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

8122765832

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2016-02-29

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Ray Charles

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Doxy

Why you'd want to limit yourself to owning just one Ray Charles album is a question only you can answer, but if that's the case, The Genius is a strong contender for the slot. Half big-band settings of tunes as diverse as Let the Good Times Roll, When Your Lover Has Gone, and Alexander's Ragtime Band and half string-drenched ballads like Just for a Thrill and Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin', this 1959 disc lives up to its title in more ways than there's room here to count. Suffice it to say that the album finds Charles at a peak of musical and emotional energy, working in thoroughly sympathetic settings with perfectly matched soloists like tenor men Paul Gonsalves and David "Fathead" Newman and arrangers on the order of Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. And the closing cut, Come Rain or Come Shine, may be Charles's single greatest performance.

The Genius Sings

Music GB