Ray Charles Live At Jazz In The Rockies (1982)

On September 4, 1982 the Ray Charles band performed at KUVO-FM's Jazz In The Rockies, in Winter Park (CO). The other acts were The Charlie Haden Quartet/Quintet, Art Blakey, Chick Corea/Gary Burton, Pat Metheny/The Charlie Haden Duo, Betty Carter and her Trio, and Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition.

Recently, a reasonably good 'audience taping' of Brother Ray's concert at the festival emerged. The setlist was without surprises:

1. Intro Ray Charles
2. Riding Thumb
3. Busted
4. Georgia On My Mind
5. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
6. Just Because
7. Some Enchanted Evening
8. Intro Raelettes
9. Guess Who I Saw Today
10. Hit The Road Jack
11. Crying Time
12. Don't Change On Me (intro to #13)
13. I Can't Stop Loving You
14. I Want Your Love (EY - vo)
15. Baby Please Don't Go
16. What'd I Say
17. Outro

Probable line-up*: Carmell Jones, Carlos Chavez, Brian Pearcy, Dean Congin - tp; John Boice, Dan Marcus, Mayo Tiana, Steve Davis - tb; Ricky Woodard, Brian Mitchell - as, Clifford Solomon, Rudy Johnson - ts, Leroy Cooper - bs; Ernest Vantrease - kb; Tony Matthews - g; Jeff Takiguchi - el-b; Rick Kirkland - dm. The Raelettes**: Trudy Cohran, Anne Johnson, Janice Mitchell, Elaine Woodard, Estella Yarbrough.

* Inferred from the line-up at the Constitution Hall concert on November 1, 1982. ** Specified in source materials.