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This is quite an interesting album (1) for people who, like me, are not so familiar with Ray Charles Robinson (1930-2004) except for his most famous hits like “The Right Time”, “I Got A Woman” and above all the iconic “What'd I Say” and “Georgia On My Mind” (not on this album because he hadn't recorded it yet; his did in 1960).
For example I didn't know he had played pure jazz like on the four “big band” instrumentals tracks filled with saxes and trumpets that open the album : “Hot Rod”, “Blues Waltz”, the excellent mischievous mambo-flavored “In A Little Spanish Town”, or the more classic jazz piece “Sherry” where he appears a skilled jazz pianist. Lesser did I know that he also played alto sax as he does here on “Hot Rod” & “The Spirit Free”!