Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again
  2:38
• 2
  Roll With My Baby
  2:37
• 3
  The Midnight Hour
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Jumpin’ in the Mornin’
  2:48
• 5
  It Should’ve Been Me
  2:43
• 6
  Losing Hand
  3:14
• 7
  Heartbreaker
  2:53
• 8
  Sinner’s Prayer
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Mess Around
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Funny (but I Still Love You)
  3:15
• 11
  Feelin’ Sad
  2:51
• 12
  I Wonder Who
  2:50
• 13
  Don’t You Know
  2:57
• 14
  Nobody Cares
  2:40
• 15
  Ray’s Blues
  2:54
• 16
  I Got a Break Baby
  2:47
• 17
  Blackjack
  2:20
• 18
  I’ve Got a Woman
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Greenbacks
  2:52
• 20
  Come Back Baby
  3:06
• 21
  A Fool for You
  3:03
• 22
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
  2:55
• 24
  Blues Hangover
  2:19
• 25
  Mary Ann
  2:48
• 26
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 27
  Hallelujah I Love Her So
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 28
  What Would I Do Without You
  2:34
• CD 2
• 1
  Dawn Ray
  5:03
• 2
  The Man I Love
  4:28
• 3
  Music, Music, Music
  2:56
• 4
  Black Coffee
  5:32
• 5
  Lonely Avenue
  2:34
• 6
  I Want to Know
  2:11
• 7
  Leave My Woman Alone
  2:41
• 8
  The Ray
  3:59
• 9
  I Surrender Dear
  5:06
• 10
  Hornful Soul
  5:30
• 11
  Ain’t Misbehavin’
  5:41
• 12
  Joy Ride
  4:39
• 13
  Sweet Sixteen Bars
  4:08
• 14
  Doodlin’
  5:53
• 15
  There’s No You
  4:47
• 16
  Undecided
  3:42
• 17
  My Melancholy Baby
  4:22
• 18
  It’s All Right
  2:17
• 19
  Ain’t That Love
  2:51
• CD 3
• 1
  Rockhouse, Parts 1 & 2
  3:52
• 2
  Get on the Right Track Baby
  2:19
• 3
  Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’bout That River)
  2:17
• 4
  That’s Enough
  2:46
• 5
  Talkin’ ’Bout You
  2:49
• 6
  What Kind of Man Are You
  2:50
• 7
  I Want a Little Girl
  2:56
• 8
  How Long Blues

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  9:17
• 9
  Cosmic Ray

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  5:24
• 10
  The Genius After Hours
  5:24
• 11
  Charlesville
  4:56
• 12
  Bags of Blues

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  8:53
• 13
  Deed I Do

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  5:51
• 14
  Blue Funk

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  8:12
• 15
  Soul Brothers

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  9:33
• CD 4
• 1
  Bag’s Guitar Blues

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  6:28
• 2
  Yes Indeed!
  2:17
• 3
  I Had a Dream
  2:54
• 4
  You Be My Baby
  2:30
• 5
  Tell All the World About You
  2:02
• 6
  My Bonnie
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Soul Meeting

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  6:05
• 8
  Hallelujah I Love Her So

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  5:31
• 9
  Blue Genius

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  6:42
• 10
  X‐Ray Blues

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  7:07
• 11
  Love on My Mind

  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  3:49
• 12
  The Spirit‐Feel (live)
  3:46
• 13
  Blues Waltz (live)
  6:24
• 14
  In a Little Spanish Town (live)
  3:48
• 15
  Sherry (live)
  4:26
• 16
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live)
  4:04
• 17
  A Fool for You (live)
  7:11
• CD 5
• 1
  I’ve Got a Woman (live)
  6:19
• 2
  Talkin’ ’Bout You (live)
  4:22
• 3
  Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River) (live)
  2:09
• 4
  Yes Indeed! (live)
  2:40
• 5
  Early in the Mornin’
  2:48
• 6
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  3:26
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Carrying That Load (single version)
  2:16
• 8
  Carrying That Load (LP version)
  2:24
• 9
  Tell Me How Do You Feel
  2:44
• 10
  Fathead

  David “Fathead” Newman
  5:23
• 11
  Tin Tin Deo

  David “Fathead” Newman
  5:22
• 12
  Bill for Bennie

  David “Fathead” Newman
  4:17
• 13
  Hard Times

  David “Fathead” Newman
  4:43
• 14
  Mean to Me

  David “Fathead” Newman
  4:16
• 15
  Sweet Eyes

  David “Fathead” Newman
  3:45
• 16
  Weird Beard

  David “Fathead” Newman
  4:49
• 17
  Willow Weep for Me

  David “Fathead” Newman
  4:59
• 18
  Tell the Truth
  3:06
• 19
  What’d I Say, Parts I & II (mono LP version)
  5:04
• CD 6
• 1
  What’d I Say, Parts I & II (stereo LP version)
  6:30
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:25
• 3
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:42
• 4
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:46
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Just for a Thrill
  3:26
• 6
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:22
• 7
  Am I Blue
  3:41
• 8
  The Spirit‐Feel (live)
  4:23
• 9
  Frenesi (live)
  5:04
• 10
  Tell the Truth (live)
  3:35
• 11
  Drown in My Own Tears (live)
  6:24
• 12
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live)
  4:05
• 13
  What’d I Say (live)
  4:25
• 14
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:53
• 15
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:53
• 16
  Deed I Do
  2:27
• 17
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:51
• 18
  Two Years of Torture
  3:25
• 19
  It Had to Be You
  2:45
• 20
  I’m Movin’ On
  2:22
• 21
  I Believe to My Soul
  2:59
• CD 7
• 1
  Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  0:21
• 2
  Unknown Title (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:16
• 3
  Piano Improvisation – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  0:31
• 4
  Losing Hand – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:47
• 5
  Little Rock Getaway – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:16
• 6
  Kentucky Waltz (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:23
• 7
  Heartbreaker (instrumental) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  2:13
• 8
  Heartbreaker – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:13
• 9
  Piano Improvisation – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  0:42
• 10
  Heartbreaker (False Starts 1 & 2) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:12
• 11
  Losing Hand – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:20
• 12
  Losing Hand – Dialog #3 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:27
• 13
  Losing Hand – Dialog #4 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  4:55
• 14
  Heartbreaker (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  2:53
• 15
  It Should’ve Been Me – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  2:56
• 16
  Nobody Cares (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:57
• 17
  Piano Improvisation – Dialog #3 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  0:33
• 18
  Mess Around (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  2:39
• 19
  Funny (but I Still Love You) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:17
• 20
  Sinner’s Prayer (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:44
• 21
  Piano Improvisation – Dialog #4 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:01
• 22
  Low Society – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:08
• 23
  Boogie Woogie (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:56
• 24
  Low Society – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:28
• 25
  Worried Life Blues (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  3:01
• 26
  Come Back Baby (Walter Davis version) – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  1:59
• 27
  Low Society (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
  2:56
• 28
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Takes 1–7) – Dialog (recording session outtake, 1958)
  8:17
• 29
  Tell Me How Do You Feel (take 1) (recording session outtake, 1958)
  3:21
• 30
  Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  1:01
• 31
  It Had to Be You – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  1:40
• 32
  My Buddy – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  1:45
• 33
  Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  0:18
• 34
  When Your Lover Has Gone – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  1:50
• 35
  I’m Beginning to See the Light (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  1:26
• 36
  Let the Good Times Roll – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
  2:46

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [2.5, 2.19, 1.3, 1.9, 1.11-15, 1.18-19, 1.21-22, 1.26-28, 5.5-6, 6.1, 6.14, 6.21]
• Allen Hanlon
  guitar [4]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [9-11]
• Bennie Crawford
  baritone saxophone [5.5, 6.9], saxophone [21]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [6.18-19, 3.8-9, 3.13-14, 4.1]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [3-4, 6]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [26-28]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [17-19]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [14, 18-19]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [3.8-9, 3.12-14, 4.1, 1.3, 1.9]
• Dave McRae
  alto saxophone [3], baritone saxophone [3, 9]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [5.6, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 1.21-22], baritone saxophone [17-19, 21-22], saxophone [6.9, 2.7, 3.3-5, 4.6], solo [1.19, 2.5, 5.6], tenor saxophone [2.5, 2.8-9, 2.11, 2.14, 2.19, 5.5, 6.1, 6.14, 6.18-19, 6.21]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [18, 27], tenor saxophone [17-19, 21-22, 26-28]
• Earle Brown
  recording [4, 8-9, 14]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [3.3-5, 4.6, 6.1, 6.9, 6.21, 5.5-6]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [3.1, 3.3-5, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.11, 2.14, 2.19, 4.6]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [14, 18-19]
• Frank Mitchell
  trumpet [11, 13]
• Frank Wess
  flute [14, 18-19], saxophone [14, 18-19]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [17-19]
• Hank Crawford
  baritone saxophone [6.1, 5.6]
• Herb Abramson
  producer [9]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [3.11, 2.1-5, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 2.19, 6.1, 6.3-4, 6.6, 6.14, 6.18-19, 6.21, 1.3, 1.11-15, 1.18-19, 1.21-22, 1.26-28, 5.5-6], tambourine [19]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [3, 9]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [3, 9]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [17-19]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [3.1, 3.3-5, 1.17-19, 1.21-22, 1.26-28, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.11, 2.14, 2.19]
• Joe Harris
  drums (drum set) [1-4]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [14, 18-19]
• Joe Tillman
  tenor saxophone [11, 13]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [3.1, 6.9, 6.21, 5.5, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 2.19]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [26-28]
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar [9-11]
• Leiber & Stoller
  producer [6]
• Lloyd Lambert
  bass [11, 13]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [3, 9]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [5.5-6, 4.6, 6.1, 6.9, 6.14, 6.18-19, 6.21]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [6]
• Marjorie Hendricks
  vocal [9]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [14, 18-19]
• Mary Ann Fisher
  vocal [4-5]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [14, 18-19]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [3, 9]
• Milt Jackson
  guitar [13], piano [8], vibraphone [4.1, 3.8-9, 3.14]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [6.1, 5.6]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [2.1-4, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.13-14, 4.1, 6.3-4, 6.6, 6.14, 6.18-19]
• O'Neil Gerald
  alto saxophone [11, 13]
• Oscar Moore
  drums (drum set) [11, 13]
• Oscar Pettiford
  bass [2.4, 3.8-9, 3.12-14, 4.1], double bass [1-4]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [26-28]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [14, 18-19]
• Paul West
  bass [28], double bass [26-27]
• Percy Heath
  bass [9-11]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [14, 18-19]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [2.8, 2.14, 6.14, 6.18-19]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [3-4, 6]
• Ray Charles
  alto saxophone [8], arranger [6.1, 1.18-19, 1.21, 1.25-27, 2.5, 2.19, 5.6], celesta [9], electric piano [5.6, 6.1], keyboard [3.1, 3.3-4, 4.6], organ [5], piano [1.3, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.17-19, 1.21-22, 1.26-28, 3.5, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.13-14, 4.1, 6.3-4, 6.6, 6.9, 6.14, 6.18-19, 6.21, 2.1-5, 2.7-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 2.19, 5.5], vocal [3.1, 3.3-5, 5.5-6, 6.1, 6.3-4, 6.6, 6.14, 6.18-19, 6.21, 1.3, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.17-19, 1.21-22, 1.26-28, 4.6, 2.5, 2.7, 2.19]
• Renald Richard
  vocal [9]
• Richie Goldberg
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [5.6, 4.6, 3.3-5]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [21-22]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [2.5, 2.7, 2.19, 3.1, 1.21], double bass [3.11, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 1.22]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [3, 9]
• Skeeter Best
  guitar [8-9, 14]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [14, 18-19]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [5.5, 6.9, 6.21]
• Ted Sommer
  drums (drum set) [4]
• The Cookies
  background vocals [5], performer [7]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [2.19, 5.6, 6.1], vocal [3.3-5, 4.6]
• Tom Dowd
  engineer [3.8-9, 3.13-14, 4.1], recording [4, 8-9, 14]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [11, 13]
• Warren Bell
  baritone saxophone [11, 13]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [3-4, 6]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [17-19]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 2.7-9, 2.11-12, 2.14, 2.19, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.11, 1.21-22]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [14]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [4]
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Issues

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  Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

  7x CD
  20 September 2005