Ray Sings Basie Swings Music Cd

Ray Charles - Ray Sings Basie Swings

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Ray Sings, Basie Swings      Artist(s) : Ray Charles, Count Basie Orchestra      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $18.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2006-10-03      Studio : Concord Records      Label : Concord Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (36 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Ray Sings Basie Swings      Best Ray Charles CD hands down      Rating:      I can't understand why anyone would give this CD anything other than 5 stars. It is currently my favorite CD in my collection. I put it on whenever I want to feel really good. Ray is all over it. And as added bonus, this disc is filled with great B-3 alla Joey DeFrancesco and great Wurlitzer. I love Ray and I have many his albums. This is my favorite, even though he didn't really make it. The arrangements are fantastic. It is knit together seamlessly--you would never know that the vocals and the instrumental tracks were recorded 30 years apart. I'd like to buy a case of this CD and give it to everyone I know. BUT IT!     Customer Reviews for Ray Sings Basie Swings Cd      Ignore the hype on this CD      Rating:      Despite what the producers of this album want you to believe...the vocal tracks on these tracks are not "superior". It sounds like Ray Charles is singing in the shower, and the shower is on the other side of the house....meanwhile, the basie orchestra and the backing vocal singers are blasting away on the couch right next to you. This is a great technology achievement???? This is horrible, on many levels, and not because they merged two sets of tracks cut 30 years apart. On some tracks, Ray's vocals are basically inaudible...and Ray is just an annoying buzz in the background. Most modern bootleg recordings are way better than this. There's a reason these tapes were buried away somewhere, as good as Ray's performance may have been if you saw the show live. Spend your hard earned money elsewhere...as another viewer noted...there are much better recordings of both Ray the the Basie Orchestra available.