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| The Very Best of |
| Ramsey Lewis |
| első megjelenés éve: 2006 |
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Kérjen
árajánlatot! |
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| 1. | Julia
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| 2. | Les Fleurs
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| 3. | Sky Islands
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| 4. | Jackson Park
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| 5. | A Night in Bahia
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| 6. | Who Are You?
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| 7. | Baile del Alma (Dance of the Soul)
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| 8. | Sarah Jane
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| 9. | Love's Serenade
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| 10. | Cante Hondo (Deep Song)
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| 11. | Sun Goddess 2000
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Jazz
Ramsey Lewis Piano
The most underrated aspect of this period in Lewis's career is how much he grew as a pianist. During his GRP years, he managed to make contemporary jazz music that was more challenging creatively than most of the bland smooth jazz music being made at the time. As the decade progressed and the smooth jazz genre developed (a contradiction in terms for some), Lewis experienced an artistic epiphany. These recordings from the 90s at the beginning of his GRP tenure led to his reforming a trio, and to his own brand of neo-classicism. At the beginning of his GRP tenure, Lewis reached deep into his past and resurrected the beautiful piece "Sarah Jane". At the end, he dug deep into his creative soul for the beautiful piano solo "Conte Hondo". The gap between the two songs is much bigger than the six years that separate the recordings.
"Sarah Jane", by the way, was written by GRP co-founder Dave Grusin. But the song was part of Lewis's repertoire back in the 60s, when Grusin was working as music director for crooner Andy Williams, before Grusin had become a record business visionary. Williams's drummer at the time was Larry Rosen, the man who put "R" in GRP. In 2006, with this, officially Lewis' 72nd album, the pianist no longer records for GRP, but is now business partners with Rosen, who no longer co-owns the record company. Their television show, Legends in Jazz, premieres this year on PBS.
It's more than irony or coincidence that brought the two together. It's the cyclical, sometimes deceptive nature of the business of jazz - a broad circle in which Ramsey Lewis has now been traveling for 50 years. The Very Best of Ramsey Lewis shows the road he was on during one decade of his long, prolific recording career.
Ramsey Lewis
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: May 27, 1935 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Crossover Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Soul-Jazz
Ramsey Lewis has long straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s) were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. In 1956, he formed a trio with bassist Eldee Young and drummer Red Holt. From the start (1958), their records for ArgoCadet were popular, although in the early days, they had a strong jazz content. In 1958, Lewis also recorded with Max Roach and Lem Winchester. On the 1965 albums The In Crowd and Hang On, Ramsey made the pianist into a major attraction and from that point, on his records became much more predictable and pop-oriented. In 1966, his trio's personnel changed with bassist Cleveland Eaton and drummer Maurice White (later the founder of Earth, Wind & Fire) joining Lewis. In the 1970s, Lewis often played electric piano, although by later in the decade he was sticking to acoustic and hiring an additional keyboardist. He can still play melodic jazz when he wants to, but Ramsey Lewis has mostly stuck to easy listening pop music during the past 30 years. In 2004 he released Time Flies, a look back at some of his most popular songs through new recordings.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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