Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Sun's Gonna Shine Again, The
2. Roll With My Baby
3. Midnight Hour, The
4. Jumpin' in the Mornin'
5. It Should've Been Me
6. Losing Hand
7. Heartbreaker
8. Sinner's Prayer
9. Mess Around
10. Funny (But I Still Love You)
11. Feelin' Sad
12. I Wonder Who
13. Don't You Know
14. Nobody Cares
15. Ray's Blues
16. I Got a Break Baby
17. Blackjack
18. I've Got a Woman
19. Greenbacks
20. Come Back Baby
21. Fool For You, A
22. This Little Girl of Mine
23. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
24. Blues Hangover
25. Mary Ann
26. Drown in My Own Tears
27. Hallelujah I Love Her So
28. What Would I Do Without You
DISC 2:
1. Dawn Ray
2. Man I Love, The
3. Music, Music, Music
4. Black Coffee
5. Lonely Avenue
6. I Want to Know
7. Leave My Woman Alone
8. Ray, The
9. I Surrender Dear
10. Hornful Soul
11. Ain't Misbehavin'
12. Joy Ride
13. Sweet Sixteen Bars
14. Doodlin'
15. There's No You
16. Undecided
17. My Melancholy Baby
18. It's All Right
19. Ain't That Love
DISC 3:
1. Rockhouse Parts 1& 2
2. Get on the Right Track Baby
3. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' Bout That River)
4. That's Enough
5. Talkin' 'Bout You
6. What Kind of Man Are You
7. I Want a Little Girl
8. How Long Blues - (featuring Milt Jackson)
9. Cosmic Ray - (featuring Milt Jackson)
10. Genius After Hours, The
11. Charlesville
12. Bags of Blues - (featuring Milt Jackson)
13. Deed I Do - (featuring Milt Jackson)
14. Blue Funk - (featuring Milt Jackson)
15. Soul Brothers - (featuring Milt Jackson)
DISC 4:
1. Bag's Guitar Blues - (featuring Milt Jackson)
2. Yes Indeed!
3. I Had a Dream
4. You Be My Baby
5. Tell All the World About You
6. My Bonnie
7. Soul Meeting - (featuring Milt Jackson)
8. Hallelujah I Love Her So - (featuring Milt Jackson)
9. Blue Genius - (featuring Milt Jackson)
10. X-Ray Blues - (featuring Milt Jackson)
11. Love on My Mind - (featuring Milt Jackson)
12. Spirit-Feel, The - (live)
13. Blues Waltz - (live)
14. In a Little Spanish Town - (live)
15. Sherry - (live)
16. (Night Time Is) The Right Time - (live)
17. Fool For You, A - (live)
DISC 5:
1. I've Got a Woman - (live)
2. Talkin' Bout You - (live)
3. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) - (live)
4. Yes Indeed! - (live)
5. Early in the Mornin'
6. (Night Time Is) The Right Time
7. Carrying That Load - (single version)
8. Carrying That Load - (LP version)
9. Tell Me How Do You Feel
10. Fathead - (featuring David Newman)
11. Tin Tin Deo - (featuring David Newman)
12. Bill For Bennie - (featuring David Newman)
13. Hard Times - (featuring David Newman)
14. Mean to Me - (featuring David Newman)
15. Sweet Eyes - (featuring David Newman)
16. Weird Beard - (featuring David Newman)
17. Willow Weep For Me - (featuring David Newman)
18. Tell the Truth
19. What'd I Say Parts I & II - (mono, LP version)
DISC 6:
1. What'd I Say Parts I & II - (stereo, LP version)
2. Tell Me You'll Wait For Me
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
5. Just For a Thrill
6. You Won't Let Me Go
7. Am I Blue
8. Spirit-Feel, The - (live)
9. Frenesi - (live)
10. Tell the Truth - (live)
11. Drown in My Own Tears - (live)
12. (Night Time Is) The Right - (live)
13. What'd I Say - (live)
14. Let the Good Times Roll
15. Alexander's Ragtime Band
16. Deed I Do
17. When Your Lover Has Gone
18. Two Years of Torture
19. It Had to Be You
20. I'm Movin' On
21. I Believe to My Soul
DISC 7:
1. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - (previously unreleased)
2. Unknown Title - (previously unreleased)
3. Piano Improvisation & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
4. Losing Hand & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
5. Little Rock Getaway & Dialog
6. Kentucky Waltz - (previously unreleased)
7. Heartbreaker - (previously unreleased, instrumental)
8. Heartbreaker & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
9. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #2 - (previously unreleased)
10. Heartbreaker - (previously unreleased, Flase Starts 1-2)
11. Losing Hand & Dialog #2 - (previously unreleased)
12. Losing Hand & Dialog #3 - (previously unreleased, with reverb)
13. Losing Hand & Dialog #4 - (previously unreleased, with reverb)
14. Heartbreaker - (previously unreleased)
15. It Should've Been Me & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
16. Nobody Cares - (previously unreleased)
17. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #3 - (previously unreleased)
18. Mess Around - (previously unreleased)
19. Funny (But I Still Love You) - (previously unreleased)
20. Sinner's Prayer - (previously unreleased)
21. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #4 - (previously unreleased)
22. Low Society & Dialog #1 - (previously unreleased)
23. Boogie Woogie
24. Low Society & Dialog #2
25. Worried Life Blues - (previously unreleased, Walter Davis version)
26. Come Back Baby - (previously unreleased, take 1)
27. Low Society - (previously unreleased, take 2)
28. (Night Time Is) The Right Time & Dialog - (previously unreleased, take 3)
29. Tell Me How Do You Feel - (previously unreleased, take 4)
30. Dialog - (previously unreleased, take 5)
31. It Had to Be You & Dialog - (previously unreleased, take 6)
32. My Buddy & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
33. Dialog - (previously unreleased)
34. When Your Lover Has Gone & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
35. I'm Beginning to See the Light - (previously unreleased)
36. Let the Good Times Roll & Dialog - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | David Newman, Milt Jackson | | Producer: | Ahmet Ertegun | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
PURE GENIUS comes packaged in a '50s-inspired record-player case and contains a bonus DVD featuring live concert footage and an exclusive interview with producer Ahmet Ertegun.
Personnel include: Ray Charles (vocals, piano); Edgar Blanchard, Mchouston "Mickey" Baker (guitar); August "Dimes" Dupont, O'Neil Gerald (alto saxophone); Sam "The Man" Taylor, Warren Hebrard, Joe Tillman (tenor saxophone); Dave McRea, Warren Bell (baritone saxophone); Frank Mitchell, Wallace Davenport, Jesse Drakes (trumpet); Lloyd Lambert, Lloyd Trotman, Frank Fields (bass guitar); Connie Kay, Alonzo Stewart, Oscar Moore (drums); Candido Camero (congas).
Additional personnel: Jesse Stone (vocals).
Liner Note Authors: Ahmet Ertegun; David Ritz.
Recording information: 1952 - 1959.
A stunning seven-CD/one-DVD box set designed to look like a vintage 1950s record player, PURE GENIUS is aptly summed up by its full title--this mammoth collection features the complete '52-'59 Atlantic recording sessions of genre-defying legend Ray Charles. The first six discs encapsulate the Genius's groundbreaking Atlantic LPs, where Charles essentially invented soul music by tapping into unrestrained, gospel-inspired passion and channeling it into the secular sounds of jazz, R&B, and rock & roll. The seventh CD offers up an array of revealing outtakes, studio-dialogue snippets, and other tracks (most of which are previously unreleased), while the DVD presents Charles performing at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, as well as RAY biopic director Taylor Hackford interviewing Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun, who was crucial in helping the beloved artist find his signature sound.
Editorial Reviews
5 out of 5 stars - ...[T]he real prize is the stunningly consistent level of outstanding work Charles created at Atlantic in the Fifties....
Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 - [F]or specialists, goodies abound....[with] an outtakes disc dominated by a 1953 rehearsal session...and undervalued studio tracks...
Mojo
4 stars out of 5 -- The tracks are chronologically sequenced so the only thematic concept is the one of hearing Charles' musical genius assuming form and focus even while energetically expanding its already eclectic nature.
Down Beat
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