An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio

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An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio
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Studio album by
Ramsey Lewis Trio
Released1959
RecordedApril 22, 1959 [1]
Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length63:59
Label Argo
LP 645 [2]
Producer Dave Usher
Ramsey Lewis chronology
Down to Earth
(1958)		An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio
(1959)		 Stretching Out
(1960)
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An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio is an album by Ramsey Lewis' Trio, recorded in 1959 and released on the Argo label. [5]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 7:38
  2. "C.C. Rider" (Traditional) - 2:38
  3. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 4:22
  4. "I Had the Craziest Dream/I Know Why" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren/Buddy Bregman, Morgan, Davis) - 6:37
  5. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:40
  6. "I Love Paris" (Porter) - 2:10
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 8:07
  8. "Song of India" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) - 2:31
  9. "Consider the Source" (Ramsey Lewis, Eldee Young) - 4:00
  10. "The Ruby and the Pearl" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) - 5:50
  11. "Walls of Jericho" (Traditional) - 3:26
  12. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 5:00

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Cohodas, Nadine (September 28, 2001). "Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records". Macmillan – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Allmusic Review accessed October 8, 2012
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". Omnibus Press – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Argo Records discography accessed October 8, 2012


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