The Great Ray Charles

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The Great Ray Charles is the second studio album by American musician Ray Charles, released in 1957 by Atlantic Records. An instrumental jazz album, it features cover art designed by Marvin Israel. Later CD re-issues of The Great Ray Charles often include six out of the eight songs from the 1961 album The Genius After Hours, as bonus tracks.

Release

The Great Ray Charles was released by Atlantic Records in August 1957. Due to frequent airplay of two tracks off the album, "Doodlin" and "Sweet Sixteen Bars", Atlantic released those two tracks as an EP later that same year.

Track listing

Original LP release

Note: Some sources list "Ain't Misbehavin" in place of "Black Coffee".

1987 CD reissue

Personnel

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