John Coltrane & Ray Charles

Ray Charles. c.1969 – Photo by Maurice Seymour

John Coltrane receives Edison Award (album Giant Steps), Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 20 November 1961

Two great musical birthdays today – Ray Charles and John Coltrane

For earlier postings on “Trane on The Allen Ginsberg Project – see here, here and here

and for Ray Charles- here

With Coltrane, the big news is this

See reviews in Jazz Views,  All About Jazz.  The Free Jazz Collective  – and more 

and for Ray Charles? –  well, how about listening to this? – a little vintage Ray!

Happy Birthday, musical brothers!

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