The music of Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder will follow set in a jazz context from artists such as Milt Jackson, Joe Henderson, Charles Kynard, Jackie Byard and Vijay Iyer. Celebrating the release of ...

Besides that most obvious similarity, Little Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, 20 years his senior, didn’t really have all that much in common. There was a raw sensuality in Charles’s gospel- and ...

The following year, the newly minted "Little Stevie Wonder" first recorded an album of cover songs by his idol Ray Charles and another one with his first original compositions. An album of live ...

Stevie Wonder joined Hancock on stage to perform ... From the tunes of Michael Jackson to Ray Charles, the Grammy stars' stirring tribute of Jones' work had the audience, including Beyoncé ...

OPINION: The seven-part series, hosted by the New York Times' Wesley Morris, celebrates ... of Stevie’s catalog. We hear Morris interview people who played with Stevie like Ray Parker, Jr ...

Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and ...

In the music of Stevie Wonder — who grew up listening to Jones’ own records and work with Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and others — Jones’ influence lives strongest in the ...

Berry Gordy immediately signed Steveland to the label, renaming him Little Stevie Wonder (the ... the popularity of "the genius", Ray Charles. Attempts to repeat the success of "Fingertips" proved ...