Mediagraphy - Discography - Trackography - Videography - Gigography - Biography - Chronology
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| Original caption to this Reuters photo: "Singer Ray Charles poses at the piano at his Los Angeles recording studio August 21, 2002 to promote his upcoming Gospel music concert titled The Gospel According to Ray Charles featuring the Voices of Jubilation. Charles returns to his roots with this first ever Gospel music concert set for September 5 and 6 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood accompanied by the 70 member Voices of Jubilation choir from Newark, New Jersey." |
The Ray Charles Video Museum is a research project, documenting live performances by The Genius.
This blog is above all a Mediagraphy. It's also a discography (or, more correctly, a trackography), aggregating all tunes that Ray sang and/or played - including the "canon" of 700 tracks listed on the official Ray Charles website, but also identifying the songs that have never been officially released, and e.g. the recordings of other artists, where Ray backed them on piano. Thirdly, this blog has evolved into a multimedia Chronology (click the years in the panel al the top of this page) of Ray's productive live.
I also try to do some justice to the more than 1,000 great musicians and singers who contributed to Ray's career (1, 2).
The Quotes page lists the wisest, craziest and funniest things that the Genius ever said. If you want to read more about Brother Ray, go here.
The availability of the streaming video and audio content on this blog is constantly under pressure. Some rights owners still think that sharing these videos damages their sales. I'm keeping disfunctional clips as placeholders - to show that the footage exists, and to replace them when new uploads appear on the Web.
The articles in this blog are continuously updated and improved. Your help is more than welcome.
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