Video still: Ray Charles with Georges Moustaki. |
The setting is rather difficult to describe. On the stage everything seems ready for a fully fledged concert by Charles and his big band, but Ray is sitting there alone at his piano, performing 3/4 Time. While in the background stagehands are still busy with cables and stuff, and the audience in the open air theater already is paying full attention to Ray, now singing Hallelujah I Love Her So, he is joined by Georges Moustaki and a bunch of other artists (Moustaki's band?). Chaos ensues, but everybody seems to have a good time.
See the comment to this article to understand (better) what really happened that day: before the band's regular concert during the evening, Ray guested on a TV show titled Blitz, centered around Moustaki. This show was recorded in day time.
*Taormina, on Sicily, has a fabulous Greek amfitheater.
I was there. The TV program was named "Blitz" and was live on air on sunday afternoon. Ray was a guest of the program, maybe with Moustaki, that particular day live from Cagliari, but in the late evening he gave a real concert, not trasmitted in TV, with his band. A great concert. The picture you show was made in the daylight, so it is referred to the TV shows, not to the evening concert.
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