World-famous jazz musician and composer Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. was first given piano lessons at age four. He was born in Chicago on May 27, 1935, to hard-working, self-educated Southern farm workers who met in church.
Lewis attended Chicago Music College Preparatory School from 1947 to 1954. He credits his music teacher, Dorothy Mendelsohn, with teaching him how to listen with his inner ear. Other than his father’s Duke Ellington, Art Tatham and Mead Lux Lewis records, Lewis had no special exposure to jazz. After graduating from Wells High School in 1954, Lewis’ first music job was as an accompanist at the Zion Hill Baptist Church. He enrolled in Chicago Music College, but left at age eighteen to marry. In 1956, he formed the Ramsey Lewis Jazz Trio and signed with Chess Records in 1957 for the Trio’s first album. The Trio, composed of Eldee Young and Red Holt, played in famous New York jazz clubs and toured as full-time jazz musicians. Lewis recorded for Columbia Records from 1971 to 1974 and signed with GRP Records in 1991. He is the winner of three Grammy Awards, and from 1967 to 1976 earned five gold records. His major hits include “The In Crowd,” “Wade in the Water” and “Hang On Sloopy.”
Album: Do What You Wanna (Part 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 90:17
Size: 206.7 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2016
Art: Front
[5:23] 1. Do What You Wanna
[3:49] 2. Wade In The Water
[5:50] 3. The In Crowd
[4:01] 4. Hey Mrs. Jones
[3:03] 5. Function At The Junction
[3:09] 6. Look-A-Here
[3:11] 7. Spanish Grease
[3:25] 8. 1-2-3
[3:07] 9. Hang On Sloopy
[3:12] 10. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
[4:04] 11. Bold And Black
[2:44] 12. Sexy Sadie
[5:03] 13. A Hard Day's Night
[2:38] 14. Here Comes Santa Claus
[4:20] 15. Blue Bongo
[2:52] 16. Carmen
[2:48] 17. Soul Man
[4:31] 18. Black Bird
[2:47] 19. Christmas Blues
[2:36] 20. Cielito Lindo
[4:51] 21. Wanderin' Rose
[3:39] 22. I Got Plenty O' Nutin'
[2:40] 23. The Breeze And I
[3:33] 24. Thanks For The Memory
[2:50] 25. Dancing In The Street
Album: Do What You Wanna (Part 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 87:41
Size: 200.8 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2016
Art: Front
[2:48] 1. Here 'tis
[3:46] 2. My Cherie Amour
[3:11] 3. Day Tripper
[3:08] 4. Summer Samba
[2:05] 5. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
[3:12] 6. Cast Your Fate To The Wind
[2:41] 7. Black Eye Peas
[2:57] 8. Ain't That Peculiar
[3:50] 9. Cry Baby Cry
[3:15] 10. The Caves
[6:34] 11. Balle Del Alma (Dance Of The Soul)
[5:26] 12. Delilah
[3:38] 13. Blues For The Night Owl
[2:14] 14. Uhuru
[3:13] 15. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
[3:58] 16. The Shelter Of Your Arms
[3:15] 17. Back In The U.S.S.R
[3:50] 18. Consider The Source
[3:31] 19. Felicidade (Happiness)
[2:23] 20. Limelight
[4:01] 21. My Babe
[2:58] 22. Lonely Avenue
[4:54] 23. Dear Prudence
[3:43] 24. Down By The Riverside
[3:00] 25. Cecile
Do What You Wanna (Part 1),(Part 2)
