Product Description
A stunning collaboration, this is Ray Charles's second "true" studio album for Atlantic, after The Great Ray Charles. While he released R&B singles for the pop market during his time with the label, he used his LPs to explore modern jazz. Here he is heard both on piano and alto sax.
Produced by Nesuhi Ertegun, SOUL BROTHERS was a collaboration between Charles and jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, one which came about as a result of Charles happening upon Tom Dowd while Dowd was in the midst of mastering an album by the Modern Jazz Quartet, one of the members of which was – wait for it – the aforementioned Mr. Jackson. Charles informed Dowd, “That Milt Jackson’s got soul,” while Jackson had been telling Ertegun, “No more of this MJQ Mozart Society shit. I’m gonna play the blues with Ray.”
