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20 November 2014

All I Need (With The Raelettes)

Album (2-CD): Ray Charles In Concert [in Warsaw], S.l., 2006.

Who knows more about the origin of this song (who wrote it/who first performed it)?

Jazz à Juan/Antibes, 1987 (ft. Elaine Woodard):


Live:
'82 LC Beacon
'84 LC Warsaw - Released
'87 LC Antibes
'88 LC Oklahoma
'89 LC Osaka
'95 LC Greenville

27 February 2011

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. 

22 January 2011

Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1987)

The 1987 Jazz À Juan concert took place on 19 July. The songs were:

1.      Pas-Se-O-Ne Blues (Ray Charles Orchestra)
2.      High On The Hogg (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Intro RC
3.      Then We'll Be Home (Sadies Tune)
4.      Busted
5.      Georgia On My Mind
6.      Mississippi Mud
7.      Just For A Thrill (solo: Jeff Kaye - fh) 
8.      Feel So Bad (solo: Kenny Carr - g)
9.      Yours
Intro Raelettes
10.  Chain Of Fools (ft Estella Yarbrough)
11.  All I Need (Elaine Woodard)
12.  Smack Dab In The Middle
13.  I Can’t Stop Loving You
14.  I Can See Clearly Now
15.  Any Way You Want To
16.  The Pages Of My Mind (ft Elaine Woodard)
17.  I'm Gonna Keep On Singin'
18.  What'd I Say

Outro

Personnel:
Musicians: Mark Curry, Bobby Medina, Ted Murdock, Jeff Kaye - trumpets; Mike Christianson, Armin Marmolejo, Steve Sigmund, Charlie Schofner - trombones; Al Jackson, Clifford Solomon (bandleader), Ricky Woodard, Rudy Johnson, Leroy Cooper - saxophones; Ernest Vantrease - keyboards; Kenny Carr - guitar; Anders Swanson - bass; Paul Kreibich - drums. The Raelettes: Estella Yarbrough, Trudy Cohran, Sharon Creighton, Elaine Woodard, Angela Workman.

The French television recycled the contents of the show in several programs (A - C, below).

A. Special with Sarah Vaughan
On July 19 France 2 aired a 29m29s special titled Sarah Vaughan - Ray Charles, with parts of their concerts (the broadcast was repeated on 24 June 1988; cf. Ina archive ID CPB88008443; I05043478 is a 7 minute cut just with Sarah Vaughan). The program was presented by André Francis and was - as always - directed by Jean Christophe Averty. The special showed: From This Moment (Vaughan), Smack Dab In The Middle (Charles), I Can't Stop Loving You (Charles), Goodbye (Vaughan), Send In The Clowns (Vaughan). There was no direct interaction between Brother Ray and Sister Sass.

B. Possible second Special with Sarah Vaughan
Yet another informant has send me yet another description of source materials or of a TV program extracted from the 1987 footage, archived on two tapes, where "Ray Charles shares the stage with a singer called Sarah Vaughan".
Tape 1 - Sarah Vaughan: There Will Never Be Another You, I'm So Glad There Is You, Just Friends, East Of The Sun, Lush Life, and a 'Gershwin medley'. Ray Charles: #5, 7, 3, 11, 9, 10, 4, 8, 6 from the list above.
Tape 2 - Sarah Vaughan: From This Moment, Goodbye, Send In The Clowns. Ray Charles: #1, 12, 13 from the list above.

C. Special titled I Feel So Bad
This source describes a 37 minute video titled I Feel So Bad. I have seen a partial copy of what most probably is this program, with the numbers 3, 5, 4, 7, 6, 8, 9 from the list above.

D. Radio recording
INA has archived (ID: PHY11006268) a recording of the complete show. This is the only copy I've listened to with the numbers 3, 4, and 11 to 18.

INA keeps 2 more video tapes with rest materials or post production footage, with performances of Mississippi Mud (Ina, I00005182) and Feel So Bad (Ina, ID I00005183) from the same concert.