![]() I have several copies of this album, including a 1961 mono LP (Impulse! Records A-2), an Analogue Productions Hybrid SACD (Analogue Productions CAPP 2 SA), and a two-CD set (Concord Records CRE-31669) that included three later Ray Charles big-band jazz albums. Charles played featured solos on the Hammond organ on Genius + Soul = Jazz and the arrangements employed the full power of the large ensembles. Prior to the original release of Genius + Soul = Jazz, Charles’s 1959 album The Genius of Ray Charles had also featured big-band arrangements by Jones, among others, on one side-and Burns had provided the string arrangements on side 2.īoth albums used members of Count Basie’s band, along with New York session players and, on the 1959 album, musicians from Duke Ellington’s band. This album consists of ten tracks, three of them featuring Charles on vocals, with big-band arrangements by Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. and Verve Records/Universal Music Enterprises continue their reissue collaboration, the Acoustic Sounds Series, with the re-release of Ray Charles’s 1961 recording for Impulse! Records, Genius + Soul = Jazz. Verve Records/Impulse! Records B0033210-01Īcoustic Sounds, Inc.
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