Upendo Ni Pamoja

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Upendo Ni Pamoja
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Studio album by
Ramsey Lewis
Released1972
Recorded1972
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia
KC 31096
Producer Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis chronology
Back to the Roots
(1971)		Upendo Ni Pamoja
(1972)		 Funky Serenity
(1973)

Upendo Ni Pamoja is a studio album by the pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1972 on Columbia Records. [1] The album peaked at No. 1 on the US Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs and No. 9 on the US Billboard Best Selling Soul LP's charts. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Jason Elias of AllMusic stated, "The problem with this is that few tracks stay with the listener. This is a cut or two away from being truly essential". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Ramsey Lewis except as indicated

  1. "Slipping into Darkness" (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott) - 6:15
  2. "People Make the World Go Round" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) - 4:51
  3. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) - 4:33
  4. "Got to Be There" (Elliot Willensky) - 3:03
  5. "Concierto de Aranjuez" (Joaquín Rodrigo) - 8:55
  6. "Upendo Ni Pamoja (Love Is Together)" (Eddie Green) - 7:22
  7. "Trilogy: Morning/The Nite Before/Eteral Peace" (Cleveland Eaton) - 8:46
  8. "Put Your Hand in the Hand" (Gene MacLellan) - 3:52
  9. "Collage" (Eddie Green) - 6:32

Personnel

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs [2] 1
US Billboard Best Selling Soul LP's [2] 9
US Billboard Top LPs [2] 79

References

  1. ↑ Ramsey Lewis - Upendo Ni Pamoja. Columbia Records. 1972.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ramsey Lewis: Billboard Charts (Archived)". AllMusic . Retrieved January 3, 2025– via archive.org.
  3. 1 2 Elias, Jason. "Ramsey Lewis - Upendo Ni Pamoja". AllMusic . Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 214.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 888. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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