![]() We played with Billie Holiday in '48, behind her. So we got most of the jobs that came around. “As kids, we were pretty cocky because we had a great band,” said Jones. In an interview with Terry Gross, Jones talked about how much he enjoyed working with Charles back in the day. The arrangements on side one of the album were done by Quincy Jones, who was only 14 when he first met Charles. That’s not to say that THE GENIUS didn’t still have soul – after all, it still featured Charles’s singing – but given that it found Charles working with David “Fathead” Newman and players from both Count Basie’s band as well as Duke Ellington’s band, Charles was clearly making a statement, and that statement was, “I can play jazz, too!”Ģ. ![]() It was the first album that found Charles actively stepping away from the R&B sound that had defined his music up to that point. To commemorate this key anniversary, we’ve put together a list of five things you may not have known about THE GENIUS OF RAY CHARLES, and it goes a little something like this.ġ. ![]() This month marks the 60th anniversary of a key album in the early career of Ray Charles, an LP with a title that may have sounded like a boast at the time but ultimately proved to be nothing more than a statement of fact. ![]()
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