The Christmas music of Ray Charles will be brought to life by the Spokane Jazz Orchestra on Saturday, with special musical guest LaShund Lambert. Spokane Jazz Orchestra director Donald Goodwin ...

Ray Charles, by this point, had left Atlantic for ABC-Paramount and was well on his way to becoming one of the 20th century's most important crossover artists—dabbling in everything from country to ...

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead," he told the Washington Post in 1983. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Tickets: Wheeler Opera House and Harris Concert Hall box offices; aspenmusicfestival.com; jazzaspensnowmass.org Take 6 began as just another of the countless college a capella groups in America. But ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - "I just do what I do." That's what Ray Charles told Billboard in June 2002 when asked to assess his role in music history. Of course, Charles' self-effacing response belies a ...