Ray Charles Live In Russia ( Moscow) 1994

Through the Jazz On The Screen database I was aware of two concerts by Ray Charles at the Russia Concert Hall in Moscow on 13 and 14 July 1994, sponsored by AlfaBank, and of the fact that the second one, directed by Sergei Antipov, was recorded for TV. The Ray Charles concerts were part of the 2nd Annual Moscow Jazz Festival. A Russian torrent website not only adds a few details to that description that the TV show was aired by RTR, and that the concert was also simultaneously, as it turns out broadcast by Prestige radio), it also offers a possibility to download the concert Sergei Antipov, sitting at an editing console, introduced the viewers to different sequences of the show. Ray s presence in Moscow was clearly a big event. The footage starts with a reportage from a press conference at Hotel Metropol, where Ray at his charming best expresses his clearly genuine gratitude for being invited to Moscow for the first time in his career. Further on in the program, we see a number of street