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When someone puts out a truly spectacular album, it’s easy to start throwing around the word “genius,” but in the case of Ray Charles, it’s a word that was utilized so often during his tenure on Atlantic Records that it actually became his nickname. As such, Rhino is celebrating Charles’s birthday – he would’ve been 86 today – by releasing a new vinyl box set featuring mono mixes of the seven album she recorded for Atlantic Records.

First we brought you the deluxe reissue of RUMOURS. Then we brought you the deluxe edition of TUSK. If we didn’t follow up that up with a deluxe reissue of MIRAGE, then we knew we were going the victims of a serious beat-down.

29 years ago today, legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius died as a result of complication from a brain hemorrhage which came about after he was involved in a fight with a bouncer at a Florida club. It was a rough way to go for a musician who’d already been battling bipolar disorder and had struggled so badly with its effects that he’d actually ended up living on the streets for a time, but Pastorius had packed a lot into his 35 years by then, which is why even now he’s remembered for the way he played his bass.