Wave (The Ray Charles Orchestra)

Unreleased.

This famous melody composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim was arranged for the band by James Polk. Three live recordings have survived.

Live:
'83 LC Antibes
'85 LC Antibes - 2x
'86 LC Lugano

Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1983)

In 1983, during their short European summer tour which began on July 7 in Reykjavik (!), and also led them to Andorra, the Ray Charles aggregation made their "usual" stop in Antibes, on July 19. The setlist was not adventurous in any sense, but the reed players (Don Wilkinson was on board!) were red hot. Ray, sounding as if it was a last-second decision, felt obliged to explicitly promote his new Columbia album Wish You Were Here Tonight (presenting the hardcore country tunes # 15 and 16 to the French jazz audience).
I've listened to a nearly complete audio copy (tunes # 01 - 16; INA ID PHY13030558) of the concert that was aired (probably live) by Radio France Côte Azur, but the same source, INA, has archived an additional tape that includes # 17 and 18 (INA ID PMY14001044).

01. Ray Minor Ray (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
02. Wave (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
03. Right Now (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
04. Intro
05. Riding Thumb
06. Busted
07. Georgia On My Mind
08. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
09. For Mamma
10. Some Enchanted Evening (solo: DW - ts)
11. Come Rain Or Come Shine (solo: DW - ts)
12. Intro Raelettes
13. I Want Your Love (ft. Estella Yarbrough)
14. I Can't Stop Loving You
15. 3/4 Time
16. Born To Love Me
17. Baby Please Don't Go (solo: ER - g)
18. What'd I Say

The line-up must have been highly similar to or identical with the concerts in Montreal (4 July) and in Andorra (16 July):

The band in Andorra on 16 July.

Musicians: Mark Curry, Denny Christianson (or Dean Conglin?), Robbie Kwock, Phil Guilbeau - trumpets; Mayo Tiana, John Boice, Scott Fisher, Dana Hughes - trombones; Clifford Solomon, Brian Mitchell, Rudy Johnson, Donald Wilkerson, Louis Van Taylor - saxophones; James Polk - piano; Eugene Ross - guitar; Roger W. Hines - bass; Rick Kirkland - drums. The Raelettes: Trudy Cohran, Anne Johnson, Janice Mitchelll, Elaine Woodard, Estella Yarbrough. 

Ray Charles Live in Antibes (1961 - 2001)

Ray's concerts at Antibes span his whole international live career. After his debut at the edition of 1961 it took him 15 years to return, but after 1976 he came back every 2 or 3 years: in 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1997, 1999, and 2001. All of his visits to Antibes are documented on film, video, or audio.

Jazz has been part of Antibes' musical landscape since the mid 1920’s. The music was introduced to Antibes by the American artist and jazz music connoisseur Gerald Murphy and his visiting guests, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald.
During its second season, Juan’s new casino welcomed a troupe of Charleston dancers one evening. Captivated by the atmosphere of this crazy night, the Murphy’s organised a sumptuous private party which was to inspire Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel, Tender Is the Night, and the Murphy’s lifestyle in Antibes would serve as a model for his other masterpiece, Les Enfants du Jazz.
In 1928, Gerald left Antibes for Hollywood where the film maker King Vidor asked him to be his advisor for the shooting of Hallelujah, the first film played entirely by black actors and dedicated to their culture.
Jazz in Juan, at this period, remained carefree. As early as 1927, the Auberge du Pin Doré welcomed the Blue Lagoon Orchestra, and the following year, the inauguration of the Pré-Catelan took place to the sounds of Danny’s Jazz Band. In 1932, Juan celebrated the 250th anniversary of champagne and for this tribute to Dom Pérignon, the new club Maxim’s accommodated no less than three orchestras: jazz, tango and rumba.
Sidney Bechet married in Antibes in 1951 and organized one of the biggest street parties ever seen on the French Riviera. At the event that Picasso painted his famous La joie de vivre masterpiece. After Bechet’s death in 1959, the first Jazz à Juan was held to pay tribute to his talent and passion for jazz (the event was organized by Jacques Hébey and  Jacques Souplet). Since then, at the heart of the Pinède Gould, the longest-running European jazz festival, Jazz à Juan, takes place each summer.
The 1960 edition was the origin of a number of other festivals that spread throughout Europe (Claude Nobs, creator of the major European jazz event that we know as Montreux, said "If I hadn’t stopped by at Antibes, Montreux would not have existed"). It attracted many of the great names of the time, including Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
The following year, 1961, Ray Charles came for the first time. He came back (the story goes, but I fail to see the direct connection, BS;-) so many times that Juan les Pins was twinned with the "French Quarter" in New Orleans.

Ray Charles in France
Ray was immensely popular in France. Jazz Hot magazine started featuring him in 1959, followed him for 10 days in 1961, put him on the cover in 1961 and in 1962, and kept on featuring him closely until the end.