The first 3 4 tracks of the Steve Turre album In The Spur Of The Moment are with Ray Charles on piano:
Ray's Collard Greens
Misty
Duke Rays
The Way You Look Tonight
Ellington Medley - Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Five O'Clock Drag
Something For John
In The Spur Of The Moment
Sueños De La Habana
Claudia
Descarga Ahora
Back side of cover with differences in track list (as compared to article text). Telarc CD-93484, 2000.
Listen here to a few of the tracks on Turre's website.
From the album notes:
The long tradition of using the sliphorn as means of vocalised expression has been preserved by such contemporary players as Ray Anderson and Steve Turre. Here, Turre splits 10 tracks into three stylistic groups - blues, modal and Afro-Cuban - and features a different pianist on each, namely Ray Charles, Stephen Scott and Chucho Valdés. As well as exploiting the full range of the trombone, from sardonic snorting to bluesy ribaldry, Turre blows jazz lines through seashells, a speciality which underlines his appetite for playing it anything but straight on his wind instruments. Readthis 'double' interview.
Peter Turre remembers that Ray's 4 tunes were recorded in 7 takes: "I believe Misty was the song we did in one take. And steve let Ray count it off. Ray went 'Three.... FO'!!!', and Steve left the FO' on the track as an inside joke/tribute to Ray's years of counting off Georgia in this exact manner."
Personnel (data relevant to Ray's session in red boldtype): Steve Turre - shells, trombone, maracas; Ray Charles - piano; Stephen Scott - piano; Chucho Valdes - piano; Peter Washington - bass; Buster Williams - bass; Andy Gonzalez - bass; Peter Turre - drums; Jack DeJohnette - drums; Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez - drums, timbales, congas, bongos, campana.
Recorded at Avatar Studios, Studios A & C, New York, New York on August 14 and October 8, 1999. Album: Telarc B00004TUOZ, 1999.
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Ray Charles at the Apollo (Apr. or maybe Oct. 1959), working on his Wurlitzer. Photo by Alex Harsley.
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The Ray Charles Video Museum is a research project, documenting live performances by The Genius.
This blog is above all aMediagraphy. 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).
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The Bishop seduces the world with his voice
Sweat strangles mute eyes
As insinuations gush out through a hydrant of sorrow
Dreams, a world never seen
Mounded on Africa's anvil, tempered down home
Documented in cries and wails
Screaming to be ignored, crooning to be heard
Throbbing from the gutter
On Saturday night
Silver offering only,
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Don't it make you feel all right?
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