Few artists can claim to have had such a wide-ranging impact on music as Ray Charles. During a career that has spanned some 58 years, the icon performed on more than 250 albums -- many of them top ...

He was in his sunset. Yellows, pinks, and oranges combined with the encroaching black of night to form a cool reminder of Ray Charles' smoldering day. The Genius, as Charles was sometimes known, ...

At last available digitally, these quietly revolutionary albums still break one of music’s deepest-held genre orthodoxies. Save this story Save this story More than a half-century later, the premise ...