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22 October 2014

Poor Butterfly (With Quincy Jones A.O.)

Album3 (VHS): Quincy Jones - A Celebration In Seattle, VC II VC133, S.a. (c. 1983) or Front Row Video, 15 November 1990.

During this TV concert, taped on 12 or 13 March 1983 in Seattle, as an extra surprise, Quincy brought Bumps Blackwell, Floyd Standifer, Buddy Catlett, Major Pickford and Ernestine Anderson on stage, presenting them, together with Ray, as a reunion of a typical show at the Washington Social Club "in 1947 or 1948" [this should be 1948 or 1949, BS], where they made some extra money through the 'Kitty Box', where guests would put in an extra quarter for any request that was fulfilled by the musicians. The reunited group, together with Quincy and Ray, performed Poor Butterfly.

13 May 2010

Ray Charles At 27th and 35th NAACP Image Awards (1996, 2004)

Clipping from Jet, 29 April 1996: Oprah, Quincy (who was honored as entertainer of the year), Ray. 
Ray performed during the 27th NAACP Image Awards, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The show was taped on 6 April 1996, and aired on 23 April.
The program was co-hosted by Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington, directed by Terri McCoy, and broadcast by Fox Network.
Billboard reported that during this program Quincy Jones was honored as an outstanding jazz artist for Q's Juke Joint (cf. this): "[...] musical sets included a performance by Ray Charles and Ernestine Anderson, who sang Let The Good Times Roll from Q's Juke Joint". A slightly more correct description is that Anderson and Charles performed a duet of the tune in a set with a big neon sign carrying the logo of Q's Juke Joint.


On 6 March 2004, at the 35th Annual Image Awards Quincy Jones inducted Ray into the NAACP Hall Of Fame, at the Universal Amphitheatre, in Hollywood.
Stevie Wonder, B.B. King and Bonnie Raitt sang Georgia as a tribute. Photo here.

01 April 2010

Ray Charles Ft. In Quincy Jones - A Celebration In Seattle (1983)

On 12 and 13 March Quincy Jones celebrated his 50th birthday with two benefit concerts for Seattle's Garfield Highschool and Seattle Central Community College (cf. this), both with Ray Charles.
That year, probably also in March, Seattle TV station KOMO broadcast  Quincy Jones - A Celebration In Seattle, a concert taping directed by Charlie Randazzo. William Boyd was concert master.
Quincy brought together many of the musicians and singers he had played with in Seattle 30 to 33 years before. We see Quincy Jones and Phillip Ingram, Phillip Perry, Charles May, John Robinson, Carlos Rios, Ollie Brown, Greg Phillinganes, Michael Stewart, Ernie Watts, Larry Williams, Kim Hutchcroft, Jerry Hey, Michael Boddicker, Malcolm Robertson, Gary Grant, Bill Reichenbach, James Ingram, Nathan East, and Edie Lehmann.

Ray played One Mint Julep (with a Seattle! shout), and sang a very tearful version of I Can't Stop Loving You. As an extra surprise, Quincy brought Bumps Blackwell, Floyd Standifer, Buddy Catlett, Major Pickford and Ernestine Anderson on stage, presenting them, together with Ray, as a reunion of a typical show at the Washington Social Club "in 1947 or 1948" [this should be 1948 or 1949, BS], where they made some extra money through the 'Kitty Box', where guests would put in an extra quarter for any request that was fulfilled by the musicians. The reunited group, together with Quincy and Ray, performed Poor Butterfly.

The concert was released two times on VHS: by VC II (#VC133, 1985) and by Front Row Video, 15 November 1990, ASIN: 630191239X.
In the 1984 documentary I Love Quincy the concert was covered by footage taken from a contemporary news cast, with a few precious seconds shot backstage, where you can see Ray (playing organ standing up), the 'reunion' group described above rehearsing the Butterfly song.