Sure Ray Charles is a genius, but is this album?  This album represents the softer Ray Charles without the R&B groove .

Ella Sings all of Gershwin and we don’t have much to say except Ella is a wonderful singer and the production is top notch.

We discuss Scat singing and how we can never go back to when it was new and the fact that Sarah Vaughan can’t remember the words for her own live album. Also Rob thinks the song “Honeysuckle Rose” is filthy.

The proto oogle shows us why we should run away and join the circus and we get to Ramblin’ .

We find this swansong album beautifully haunting or maybe hauntingly beautiful .

Tito brings Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo, son cubano, and cha-cha-chá to the mainstream and we are glad he did !

We talk about the wildest voice and the man that put’s the Rock in Rock n’ Roll .

We talk about the afro cuban jazz big band sound that seems to be in perfect sync. Oddly Machito’s singing isn’t featured on the album at all .

We talk about this seminal jazz album that was before it’s time and was recorded 7 years before it was before it’s time. Also Grady and I muse about the song “Moon Dreams” .

Some of us struggle to find the rhythm in Palo Congo’s trance like drumming .