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Ray Charles
Ray Charles was a legendary American singer, songwriter, and pianist known as a pioneer of soul music in the 1950s. Born in Albany, Georgia, and raised in Greenville, Florida. He lost his sight completely by age seven due to glaucoma and learned music composition in Braille at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind.
Jazz Note #2 – Play a Showtune
The best way an artist can grab the attention of an ever-elusive audience is to take something tried and true and turn it on its head. I’m talking about reinterpretation. When it comes to jazz, there is no better way to ease a new listener into a new sound than to play a familiar tune, especially when song comes from the Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical, “Oklahoma” and Ray Charles is the one singing “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” from the 2006 Concord release, “Ray Sings Basie Swings.”