Results for "Ramsey Lewis"

Tambura

December 11, 2011

Album: Ramsey, Taking Another Look
By Ramsey Lewis
Label: Hidden Beach Recordings
Released: 0
Duration: 05:21

Ramsey Lewis - Ramsey, Taking Another Look (2011)

September 22, 2011

I skipped right to this album's new edit of “Sun Goddess," a timelessly accessible 1970s R&B fusion number—already singing the familiar wordless chorus from the original by Ramsey Lewis with Earth Wind and Fire: Way-ohhh, waaaaaay-ooooooooh. In 1974, the sessions for the Sun Goddess album marked a reunion with Earth Wind and Fire leader Maurice White, ...

Jazz Legend Ramsey Lewis Releases 80th Album Today

September 21, 2011

Three-time Grammy winner Ramsey Lewis, who rose to prominence in the early 1970's, released his 80th album, Ramsey, Taking Another Look today with his Electric Band. Lewis (who performed live in the KPLU studios in October 2009), signed with Los Angeles based boutique label Hidden Beach Recordings earlier this year, and Ramsey, Taking Another Look marks ...

Hidden Beach signs Jazz Legend Ramsey Lewis

September 9, 2011

"Ramsey, Taking Another Look" slated for release September 20, 2011 Los Angeles based boutique label Hidden Beach Recordings announced earlier this month the signing of legendary jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. The three time Grammy® winner who rose to prominence in the early 1970's will release his 80th collection on September 20, 2011 entitled Ramsey, Taking Another ...

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings 1956-64

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
August 12, 2011

The Modern Jazz Quartet The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of The Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-64 Mosaic Records 2011 They were diverse in talent and temperament. John Lewis, the quiet and determined westerner, who told sound stories with his linear and logical blues-based pianisms; Milt “Bags" Jackson, the baggy eyed, Motor ...

Wade In The Water

Featuring the music of Ramsey Lewis
Duration: 5:23
May 27, 2011

Dave Brubeck Radio on Sirius XM

May 1, 2011

Sirius XM's latest limited-engagement channel is dedicated to a living legend and a national treasure, Dave Brubeck. In a grand conclude to Sirius XM's Jazz Appreciation Month celebration, “Dave Brubeck Radio" honors this jazz icon with a weekend of non-stop music from his over 6 decade career and music from the artists inspired by him. Hosted ...

Ezra Weiss: The Shirley Horn Suite

by Wilbert Sostre
April 22, 2011

Portland based pianist/composer Ezra Weiss' fifth release is a tribute to Shirley Horn, who died in 2005 at age 71. Horn was an excellent pianist and sensitive vocalist, and a Grammy Award-winner in 1991, for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. Weiss is certainly an extraordinaire composer, the winner of three ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards. ...

Plays The Beatles Songbook

By Ramsey Lewis

Label: Columbia
Released: 2010

George Duke: Facing the Music

by Jeff Winbush
December 20, 2010

In jazz, there are two seminal figures called “Duke." For Edward Kennedy Ellington, “Duke" was a nickname. For George Duke, it is his surname, but the similarities with Duke Ellington don't end there. As a pianist, arranger, songwriter, bandleader and composer, George Duke has solidified his reputation as one of jazz's most important figures. Also a ...