Stretching Out

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Stretching Out
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Studio album by Ramsey Lewis Trio
Released 1960
Recorded February 23 & 24, 1960
Chicago
Genre Jazz
Label Argo
LP 665
Producer Jack Tracy
Ramsey Lewis chronology
An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio
(1959) An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio1959		Stretching Out
(1960)		 The Ramsey Lewis Trio in Chicago
(1960) The Ramsey Lewis Trio in Chicago1960

Stretching Out is an album by Ramsey Lewis' Trio featuring tracks recorded in 1960 and released on the Argo label. [1]

Ramsey Lewis American musician

Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received five gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.

Argo Records was a record label in Chicago that was established in 1955 as a division of Chess Records.

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Reception

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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars calling it "among Lewis' strongest from the jazz standpoint, balancing a commercial emphasis on melody with jazz improvising and swinging". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Ramsey Lewis, Eldee Young and Isaac "Red" Holt except as indicated

  1. "Li'l Liza Jane" (Traditional) - 3:13
  2. "This Is My Night to Dream" (Johnny Burke, James V. Monaco) - 2:34
  3. "Scarlet Ribbons" (Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal) - 3:32
  4. "Here 'Tis" - 2:51
  5. "My Ship" (Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill) - 4:14
  6. "Put Your Little Foot Right Out" (Traditional) - 2:55
  7. "Solo Para Ti" - 2:56
  8. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strachey) - 3:37
  9. "When the Spirit Moves You" - 3:43
  10. "A Portrait of Jennie" (J. Russel Robinson) - 2:30

Personnel

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Eldee Young was a jazz double-bass and cello player who performed in the cool jazz, post bop and rhythm and blues mediums.

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References

  1. ↑ Argo Records discography accessed October 8, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 8, 2012
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