Not to be missed by jazz fans

Kelsie 2022-03-21 09:01:44

For people like me who don’t understand movies and listen to some music, it’s better to finish listening to it than watching it. This is a film that makes jazz fans hooked. I believe grassroots jazz fans like me have finished watching it The first thing I did was search for ray charles on the donkey.

Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
Mess around
I Got a Woman
Mary Ann
...

The film reproduces ray's musical journey almost intact.

Except for the scene where he hallucinated himself in the same year, this movie is a more realistic reproduction of Ray's legendary and colorful life.

For a blind musician, the only thing he can feel is his music. His favorite is actually music.

The drug was acquired when he was lonely physically and mentally and almost desperate for life.
Women are just his means of venting, everything he does to prove to others that he can be a normal person who can earn both fame and fortune.

Black music, in fact, is more of a source of pain. They play with the world in a hippie way, and even God does not spare them. Under the stimulation of drugs, they walk on the edge of life and death, just like in the movie. Like Ray,

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Ray quotes

  • Oberon: You know, Marlene and Gossie's the ones running the game on you, Ray. They sliced up the pie the first night you played. Thirty-five percent off the top. Plus Gossie's double scale as leader.

    Ray Charles: Leader. If anyone's leadin' the band I'm the leader! You know what? Forget the bohumps. I'm goin' my own way.

    Oberon: Who's gonna book your gigs? Marlene's got you locked up and she ain't about to let her golden goose go.

    Lady in Rain: [singing] Straighten up and fly right. Cool down papa don't you blow your top.

    [Speaking]

    Lady in Rain: Ray Robinson you are fan-tastic.

    Oberon: There you go man. Gimme some skin.

    Ray Charles: [Feels card in his hand] What's this?

    Oberon: Jack's card. I got his number at the hotel

  • Jack Lauderdale: So Ray, we got to talk about your name, man. Robinson. I mean, Sugar Ray got to Robinson franchise all sewed up. So I'm thinking we go with your middle name: Charles. As in "Ray Charles."

    Ray Charles: I don't care what you call me, man, just as long as my name is on the record.