Another Voyage

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Another Voyage
Ramsey Lewis - Another Voyage.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1969 [1]
RecordedMay 12–14, 1969
StudioTer Mar Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz-funk [2]
Label Cadet
LPS-827
Producer Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis chronology
Ramsey Lewis Live in Tokyo
(1968)
Another Voyage
(1969)
The Piano Player
(1969)

Another Voyage is a studio album by the Ramsey Lewis Trio issued in 1969 on Cadet Records. [3] The album peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart and No. 34 upon the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]

Record Mirror found "Ramsey Lewis's mixture of jazz with pop and soul music never varies from his own well -developed style - and on this album there are another ten examples of his piano playing." [8] Ed Hogan of AllMusic declared that "Another Voyage is one of the Ramsey Lewis Trio's best efforts" which "serves as a prime example of the muscular Chicago sound while preserving the pianist's trademark elegance". [5] John Fordham of The Guardian also noted that Lewis' "licks-playing is undeniably engaging, his sense of dynamics and drama acute, and the drumming of Maurice White, before his departure to Earth, Wind & Fire, very tight and commanding." [6]

Track listing

All compositions by Ramsey Lewis except as indicated

Side 1

  1. "If You've Got It, Flaunt It, Pt. 1" (Lewis, Cleveland Eaton, Maurice White) - 2:49
  2. "Wanderin' Rose" (Neal Creque) - 4:55
  3. "How Beautiful Is Spring" (Eddie Harris) - 4:33
  4. "Do What You Wanna" - 2:41
  5. "My Cherie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 3:49

Side 2

  1. "Bold and Black" (Harris) - 4:07
  2. "Opus Number 5" (Charles Stepney) - 5:38
  3. "Uhuru" (White) - 2:20
  4. "Cecile" (Eaton) - 3:04
  5. "If You've Got It, Flaunt It, Pt. 2" (Eaton, Lewis, White) - 2:18

Personnel

Charts

Album
YearChartPosition
1969US Billboard Top R&B Albums 34 [4]
US Billboard Top Jazz Albums 5 [4]
US Billboard 200 139 [4]

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