Guardian Music — Skiving school, gorging on cough mixture … popping open the blister-packed CDs of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space brings it all back"A record that will change your life," is a phrase that gets bandied about too often, but it's a c... more info

All About Jazz — Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles an... more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about music inspired by too many taurine-based beverages. This time we want you to suggest songs that are begging for itWhen it comes to last week's thread, as the man once said, "I feel good". And as he also said, "yyyyyyyyyaaaaaaa... more info

All About Jazz — Ray Charles and Quincy Jones were teenagers when they met in a Seattle nightclub, one of dozens clustered around Jackson Street in the 1940s. They were both aspiring jazz musicians, Charles a pianist, Jones a trumpeter. They were among many now- fam... more info

Pitchfork - TV — A documentary on unsung producer and engineer Dowd, who worked with everyone from Ray Charles to John Coltrane to Otis Redding over his 60-year career. The 82-minute film is shown in its entirety. more info

Reuters — LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank's depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's biographical film "Amelia" is of a high order. It ranks with recent portrayals of Ray Charles by J... more info

ET Online — ET's with Grammy-winning singer Michael Buble as he croons a song made famous by Ray Charles. Click the video to watch! "It's a really beautiful song and a really touching song," Michael says of "Georgia on My Mind." "I just wanted to really me... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — These days, soul music is a genre often stuck in the side aisle of the record store or passed off into smoky cafés and '70s reunion shows. The originators of American soul music — Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and early James Brown — commandeered e... more info

Topix — Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. more info

All About Jazz — Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, admired within jazz circles but little known outside them, has received tangible recognition for his work as a player and a teacher. Belgrave left Ray Charles in the early 1960s ago to settle in Detroit. In today's Detroit ... more info