Articles about Ray Charles

Pressing His Luck - 11-1-2008

Since winning an Academy Award in 2005, Jamie Foxx has seen his films fall flat. Will his risky performance in this month’s The Soloist be enough to put him back in audiences’ — and the Academy’s — good graces? Or will he be the next victim of the Oscar curse?

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...for his note-perfect performance as the late Ray Charles in 2004’s Ray was, on the other...

... Ray was, on the other hand, something Ray Charles never expected. He arrived in Los Angeles in...

...on the other hand, something he never expected. Ray Charles arrived in Los Angeles in 1989 with dreams of...

Vintage L.a. - 6-1-2008

Vintage L.A.In this day of disposable, cookie-cutter style, the elegance of Hollywood's golden era has never held more allure. Amy Tara Koch offers the inside scoop ...

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...that has attracted jazz and blues greats like Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ben Harper, and Macy Gray.

Climbing Blind - 3-1-2008

[dl] FILMAn experienced climber pushes a group of sightless, teenage novices toward the top of a mountain in the new documentary Blindsight. By El...

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...role in The Mighty .

Ray Charles: The true story of how Ray Charles lost his...

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Ray: The true story of how Ray Charles lost his sight at age six and then went on to...

... The true story of how Ray Charles lost Ray Charles sight at age six and then went on to become a...

Music - 12-1-2001

MUSIC BETWEEN FRIENDS Billy Joel The Essential Billy Joel (Columbia, $25) Hot on the heels of his all-instrumental release, Fantasies & Delusions: Music for Solo Piano (composed by Joel and performed by Richard Joo), t...

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...are B.B. King, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Sheryl Crow, Diana Krall, and others.

The Blues Are Back In Town - 10-1-2003

As a musical genre that’s often overlooked these days, the blues has been singin’ the blues itself. But now some of Hollywood’s top directors aim to put Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and their musical progeny back on the map. The blues...

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...who has a part in the upcoming Ray Charles biographic film Unchain My Heart, calls The...

Troubled Man - 6-15-2006

Twenty-five years ago, Marvin Gaye rebuilt his mind, body, and eventually his career in an unlikely place: a tiny town on the coast of Belgium. retraces Gaye’s steps to find out what was going on back then.

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... wasn’t the normal top-10 stuff. He had Ray Charles and Charles Brown, blues...