Ray Charles - Still Crazy After All These Years - 8/14/1993 - Newport Jazz Festival

Recorded 8/14/1993 - Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI)
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[@jeffnobles214]

Impressed with the drummer sticking to his guns on this one. can't be easy to do.

[@robertmannel4446]

Wow!!! Off the charts great!!!!

[@RoyGBiv-lc8tv]

Fantastic song and fantastic cover!

[@williampaylorjr9481]

Gold! Everything the man touches turns to Gold

[@swampsofhome]

Ray really brings out the gospel feel in this classic. I like it.

[@PapaEli-pz8ff]

Kind of Bluesy, too..

[@Thetimpson]

Talk about making the song your own!

[@befajoses]

Wow...this is so much on another level...words can't really make justice to this moment and performance...delivered the Music with glorious glory, my Lord have mercy wow jazzman from Jupiter!!! Holy wow

[@loricullenmusic]

incredible any day of the week/year/decade

[@maggiecora]

Magic❤❤

[@maryannmccarthy1824]

There. Are. No. Words. ❤

[@rjwusher]

This is sublime. Wow.

[@danielgeary5215]

THE MAN

[@franosbornblaschke3694]

Awe...very nice... : )

[@bobyk87]

Sure he's got Paul's song to another funny level, I laughed so much till tears started rolling.

[@benhosman]

Holy shit

[@davidferrara1105]

Music is the only religion that delivers

[@jonathangill6678]

The moment Paul Simon knew he made it.

[@joshuagallua]

If Paul would have written this and Ray had originally recorded it, this song would be a jazz standard now, like Autumn in New York or What a Wonderful World.

[@Astralpains]

Great video thanks

[@moe9196]

starting 3:03 i thought that was a guitar player in the background . nope, when they widened the zoom lens it was Ray on the keyboards . that blew my mind ! he really has his keyboard stacked with synth sounds. my guess he was also using a toggle with the left hand to get them blue note bends and slides. although on other songs at this concert there is an excellent guitar player playing and you could tell the difference

[@andysmith6156]

Probably my fav singer and piano player So hard I bet to be in his traveling band, you guys sounded great here. The bad thing about Ray is he was always the best in the room, thats tough sometimes because nobody could ever hear what RAY was hearing. Love this song, and I want to know HOW Paul Simon wrote this incredible song, he had to have had a lot of help on this chord structure. No way he did this alone. MaYBE his best song.

[@johnwilson1997]

Personaly though I love this song I think the middle is harmonicaly suspect. Of course it was all his own work.

[@Undine29]

Me 2💃🤗💝

[@marl336]

Always wondered who that band is.. Just guys out of the hall, or a dedicated group traveling with Ray. They sure do excel!

[@DavidHoffmanTrumpet]

We were Ray's traveling band. 7 months a year. I was on the band 1991-2003, when he got sick. And thanks much!

[@davidferrara1105]

@@DavidHoffmanTrumpet You guys were fantastic. What gig man. thanks for the music

[@mauricegimmy9696]

No cell phones, just everyone living in the moment.👍

[@levismith5169]

The bassist sitting closest to ray looks suspiciously like Paul Simon doesn’t he…