Still, the glory of Charles' singing and the ace arrangements ... have a way of breaking down resistance." In 2000, Q magazine included The Genius of Ray Charles in their list of the "Best Soul Albums of All Time" and wrote that it "finds the great man swinging, emoting, cajoling and laughing his way through a selection of standards that he makes his own ... it exudes pure class." It was voted number 390 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000). In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked The Genius of Ray Charles number 263 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 265 in a 2012 revised list. In a 2004 review for the magazine, Robert Christgau praised producers Jerry Wexler and Nesuhi Ertegun for persuading "five different arrangers into the subtlest charts of Charles' career." Christgau asserted that "Charles tried many times, but except for Modern Sounds, he never again assembled such a consistent album in this mode." In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), critics J. D. Considine and Michaelangelo Matos said that it is "perhaps the most important of [Charles'] albums for Atlantic", because it "introduces the musical approach he would follow for much of the '70s." They argued that, instead of pursuing the contemporary sounds of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, or swing era big bands, Charles played a "curious hybrid of the brassy R&B of his pop-oriented recordings and the showy shmaltz favored by the era's middle-of-the-road acts." However, they cautioned listeners that the album was "abysmally recorded, with frequent overmodulation muddying its brasher moments." Track listing Personnel Side one Ray Charles - vocals, piano Clark Terry - trumpet Ernie Royal - trumpet Joe Newman - trumpet Snooky Young - trumpet Marcus Belgrave - trumpet John Hunt - trumpet Melba Liston - trombone Quentin Jackson - trombone Thomas Mitchell - trombone Al Grey - trombone Frank Wess - flute, alto saxophone and tenor saxophone Marshal Royal - alto saxophone Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone (and solo on "Two Years of Torture") Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone (on "Let the Good Times Roll", "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "'Deed I Do") Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone (on "It had to be You", "Two Years of Torture" and "When Your Lover Has Gone") David "Fathead" Newman - tenor saxophone (and solos on "Let the Good Times Roll", "When Your Lover Has Gone",