Autumn Leaves (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)

Album (DVD): Ray Charles à Montreux 1978, S.r., S.a.

With Dizzy Gillespie (tp, solo), Hank Crawford (as) and David Newman (fl, ts), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g),  George Duvivier (b), Esther Phillips (voc).

God Bless The Child (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O., Ft Esther Philips)

Album (CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a.

Most of this concert was a mess, and Esther didn't make it any better.

With Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Hank Crawford (as) and David Newman (fl, ts), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g); George Duvivier (b), Esther Phillips (voc).

In A Mellow Tone (With Dizzy Gillespie) (?)

Unreleased (it's uncertain if any video or audio with this tune has survived).

Mentioned as part of the Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie concert in Montreux on 13 July 1978 by the festival's Concerts Database.

The tune, however, didn't make it to the known releases.

Salt Peanuts (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)

Album (CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a.

Here Dizzy and his boys learned Ray how to play Salt Peanuts...

With Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b).

Stormy Monday (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)

Album (bootleg CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a.

Ray Charles fooled around several times with citations from Stormy Monday (Madrid 1975, The Hague 1980), but this version with a combo led by Dizzy Gillespie came closest to a complete rendition (although Ray had trouble again to get the rhythm section in the right tempo).

Ray Charles (el.p.), Dizzy Gillespie (tp), David Fathead Newman - ts, Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b). Solos: KB - g; DG - tp.

The Thirteenth Floor (Ft. David Newman)

Unreleased (it's uncertain if Ray played on this one with the combo, and if a recording has survived ).

The tune is mentioned as Thirteen floor in the Montreux Jazz Festival's database, as a part of the Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie concert on 13 July 1978. It was no doubt added to the setlist by Fathead (see below), who also composed it.

A recording, unfortunately, didn't make it to the known releases from this festival edition.

Feasible line-up: Ray Charles - p, Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Hank Crawford (as) and David Newman (fl), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g),  George Duvivier (b).

Fathead's fantastic version (from his album Bigger And Better, Atlantic SD 1505, 1968):

Willow Weep For Me (With David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)

Album: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960 (November 1958).
Album (DVD): Ray Charles à Montreux 1978, S.p., S.a.

Recording Date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York.

Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd.



Live:
Twenty years later the Montreux Jazz Festival reunited Ray with Fathead and Hank, and combined them with a combo led by Dizzy Gillespie. They took the Willow arrangement from '58, but this time Crawford played alto himself. Ray played his electric piano (and scatted a little in the end), but the main merit of the clip below is that Ray and Hank turned it into a true masterclass (giving the poor rhythm section a very hard time...).

Subject: keep it slooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

With Hank Crawford (as) and David Newman (ts), Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Ray Charles (el.p., voc), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b).