Ray Charles On Piano Jazz (1990)

Ray and Marian.

On 9 January 1990 Ray Charles was a guest at Marian McPartland's famous NPR radio program Piano Jazz, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York. It was first broadcast on 6 April 1991, and it's a marvel - the virtuoso piano pieces are as interesting as the conversation is funny. During their conversation they played a few songs (Marian sometimes backing Ray on piano), and improvised some blues tunes together. Their script was:

1. Conversation
2. Georgia On My Mind 
3. Conversation
4. Summertime 
5. Conversation 
6. The Man I Love (with Marian McPartland)
7. Conversation
8. Willow Weep For Me (solo Marian McPartland)
9. Conversation
10. [Blues] (Charles, McPartland) / Things Ain't What They Used To Be
11. Conversation
12. Am I Blue
13. Conversation 
14. Portrait Of Ray Charles (solo Marian McPartland)
15. Conversation
16. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
17. Conversation
18. Ray And Marian's Blues (Charles, McPartland) 

The NPR website offers a sequence of 10 odd minutes with Am I Blue (Ray backed by Marian), and Oh, What A Beautiful Morning.

The New York Public Library (Performing Arts Research Collections; (CStRLIN)NYPW87-A197) has stored a copy on CD.