Ray Charles in City of Orlando - the 1940's
from Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, pages 93-94:
I was pretty crazy at sixteen, and if you need any proof, just listen to what I did when I was finally able to rub a couple of dimes together:
I didn't run out and buy a mess of food… Instead I got me a record player--right there in Orlando [Florida, 1940's], in the midst of the worst economic depression of my life. I figured that was all the nourishment I needed.
I wanted to hear all the Jazz at the Philharmonic records. Those early sessions had everyone on them: Illinois Jacquet, Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Nat Cole, Roy Eldridge. I remember a particularly wild … more >>
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David Ritz and Ray Charles, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (New York, 2003), p. 93-94. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1427463111790 accessed: 11 October, 2024
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'Lady Be Good'
written by Lester Young |
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jazz
written by Miles Davis, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell |
performed by Charlie Parker, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Benny Carter, Lester Young, Nat King Cole |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1940's |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:31:51 +0000
Approved on Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:02:01 +0100