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Ramsey Lewis: Dance of the Soul

by Robert Spencer
June 1, 1998

Here's Ramsey Lewis doin' his thing, and even after all these years, nobody does it as ably or as amiably as Ramsey. On this disc there are, among the soloists, a fine trumpeter and an interesting guitarist, but the advance release leaves them anonymous. In any case, kudos to all. “Baile del Alma (Dance of the Soul)" is pleasingly jazzy. It thrusts ahead without any nonsense, but the (again anonymous) drumming is scattershot and inventive, instead of resorting to pallid ...