On December 14, SJO will host its annual Christmas Concert, featuring the Christmas music of Ray Charles, with Seattle-area ...
Across his career, the 28-time Grammy Award-winning Jones worked with everyone from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra ... so with “Liza,” from his first album, “Jazz Abroad,” a joint release ...
Music giant Quincy Jones has been laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, a week after his death at age 91.
Fans of Ray Charles (isn’t that everybody?) have an early holiday gift with the re-release of two historic American albums wherein Brother Ray took country music and shook it up bigtime. “The Genius,” ...
Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson's historic "Thriller" ...
an album by Fitzgerald with Count Basie's orchestra ... You can also thank Jones for “The Best Is Yet to Come.” 1967: Ray Charles, “In the Heat of the Night” Jones scored the 1967 film ...
He recorded with the giants of American singing: Ray Charles, Dinah Washington ... teen-pop idol Lesley Gore to the biggest selling album of all-time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
In 1959-60, he arranged a pair of Charles’ finest albums, “The Genius of Ray Charles” and “Genius + Soul Jazz.” He received his first Grammy in 1964 for his arrangement of “I Can’t ...