Детали релиза : Ray Charles - Strong Love Affair (1996) [FLAC (tracks + .cue)]

Label: Qwest Records, Warner Bros.
Catalog: 9362-46107-2, WE 833
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1996
Genre: Funk / Soul, Jazz
Style: R&B, Soul, Funk

Credits:
Producer - Jean-Pierre Grosz (tracks: 1 to 4, 7 to 10), Ray Charles (tracks: 5, 6, 11, 12)

Personnel:
Ray Charles - vocals, piano, programming
Kjetil Bjerkestrand - arranger, clarinet, woodwinds, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, programming
Richard Niles - arranger, keyboards
Phil Palmer - acoustic & electric guitars
Nguyen Le, Basil Leroux, Frode Alnes, Patrice Tison, Mark Sullivan, Elvind Aarset, Herve Krief - guitar
Wilfred Gibson, Boguslaw Kostecki, Marciej Rakowski, Roger Garland, Peter Oxer, Rosemary Furness, John Bradbury, Sonia Slaney, Patrick Kiernan, William Benham - violin
Peter Lale, Kame Wilkinson, Garfield Jackson - viola
Anthony Pleeth, Paul Kegg, Caroline Dale - cello
Quatuor Odin - strings
Nigel Hitchcock - alto & baritone saxophones
Molly Ducan, David O'Higgins - tenor saxophone
Paul Spong, Sid Gauld, Gerard Presencer - trumpet
Nell Sidnell - trombone
Malcolm Maddock, Thierry Elies - piano, organ
Knut Koppang - piano
Don Snow, Per Kolstad - keyboards
Phil Spalding - bass, background vocals
Brad Lang - bass
Ian Thomas - drums, programming
Neal Wilkinson, Andre Ceccarelli - drums
Marc Chantereau, Luis Jardim - percussion
William "Billy" Osborne - programming
Sylvia Mason-James, Hannah Clive, John Savannah, Maggy Ryder, Stevie Lange, C.H. Thompson - background vocals

Notes:
© 1996 Qwest Records for the US and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States

Review by William Ruhlmann

Once he signed to Warner Bros., Ray Charles adopted the '90s superstar schedule, releasing an album every three years. Strong Love Affair, the third of them (now on Quincy Jones's custom label, Qwest), is a self-production that finds Charles performing his usual mix of blues, R&B, and pop on a set of newly written songs. The material is serviceable, if generic, but what matters is Charles's typically expressive vocal performance. At 65, Charles may no longer be able to surprise us, but he doesn't seem ready to retire, and if new recordings from him risk redundancy and irrelevance, at their best they nevertheless can represent Charles as well as his earlier, revolutionary work. Strong Love Affair never tries to conform Charles to anything other than his eclectic self, and it never gets in his way.