TODELLA UPEA PAKETTI! Kaikki Atlantic matsku (1952-1959) samassa paketissa!! [*] = ennenjulkaisematonta matskua. Pure Genius – The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)” comes in a tasty 5″ x 5″ card box with 155 remastered tracks across 7 CDs (Barcode 8122-79735-06). Disc 7 is a collectors dream – a whopping 36 unreleased tracks culled from 1953, 1958 and 1959 sessions – complete with dialogue in between some cuts. The individual cards are simply numbered 1 to 7 and are different colours with a basic track list on the rear – so a little dull if the truth were told. But the CD-sized booklet is amazing. Across 80-pages there’s a forward by label founder Ahmet Ertegun, an essay on Brother Ray’s beginnings and legacy by noted musicologist David Ritz (Pages 9 to 45) and the original liner notes for every LP issue for the period (Pages 46 to 60). It finishes with a fully annotated track list, separate LP and Single Discographies and the set’s credits. Rhino’s long-standing tape engineers and experts – Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot – remastered the tracks from the original masters to fabulous effect.The 12 studio albums included are:”Ray Charles” (1956), ”The Great Ray Charles” (1957), ”Soul Brothers” (with Milt Jackson, 1958), ”Ray Charles At Newport” (1958), ”Yes Indeed!” (1958), ”What I Say” (1959), ”The Genius Of Ray Charles” (1959), ”Fathead/Ray Charles Presents David Newman” (1959), ”Ray Charles In Person” (1960), ”The Genius After Hours” (1961), ”The Genius Sings The Blues” (1961) and ”Soul Meeting” (again with Milt Jackson, 1962).The 6 subsequent compilation albums are:”The Great Hits Of Ray Charles Recorded On 8-Track Stereo” (1964), ”The Ray Charles Story – Volumes 1 to 4” and ”Ray Charles: A Life In Music – You Can’t Fake The Feeling” (1982).It also features every 7″/78″ single issued during the period that were non-album.”