A Pair Of Threes (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Alf Clausen.

Ray Charles - piano; Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiana (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar;  Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.



Live:
'75 LC Japan - Released

Brazilian Skies (The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Review of a concert at the Marin
Center in San Rafael (Aug. 25, 2002).

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Teddy Edwards.

Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar;  Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.



Live:
'78 LC Antibes
'92 LC Antibes

Going Home (The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Teddy Edwards.

With Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar;  Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.



Live:
'68 LC Fresno

Kids Are Pretty People (The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Alf Clausen.

Ray Charles - piano; Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar;  Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.

Morning Of Carnival (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973-01.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Roger Neumann.

Ray Charles - piano; Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar;  Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.



Live:
'75 LC Mexico

Our Suite (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Original big band chart (for trumpet 1).

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Composed by Ray Charles and Roger Neumann; arranged by the latter.

Ray Charles - piano; Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles 'Bags' Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar; Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.



Live:
'72 LC San Carlos
'75 LC Brussels
'75 LC LatinCasino
'82 LC Antibes
'92 LC Antibes

Togetherness (With Ray Charles Orchestra)

Album: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971.

Arranged by Jimmy Heath.
Ray Charles - piano; With Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar; Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.

Jazz Number II (1973)

1. Our Suite
2. A Pair Of Threes
3. Morning Of Carnival
4. Going Home
5. Kids Are Pretty People
6. Togetherness
7. Brazilian Skies 

Ray Charles and his Orchestra with a great selection of jazz instrumentals. Roger Neumann (#1, 3), Alf Clausen (#2, 5), Teddy Edwards (#4, 7), Jimmy Heath (#6) arranged the tunes; Ray Charles produced.

Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971.

After sessions, Ray worked further on the results. If he didn't like solos, he asked musicians back to dub them over in subsequent sessions. This e.g. happened for sure with track #1, Our Suite, featuring David Newman.


Tangerine 1512, 1973-01.

The personnel remained uncredited, but the line-up was (almost) reconstructed as follows:*

Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave - trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) - trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman (tenor), Don ??? or Andy Ennis (tenor), Leroy Cooper (baritone) - saxophones; Charles (Bags) Costello - organ, piano; Ralph Byrd - guitar;  Edgar Willis - electric bass; Ernie Elly - drums.

* Mayo Tiana was so kind to provide me with these drastic corrections on earlier notes. Jack Walrath suggested that the second tenor player may have been Andy Ennis.