Released 1959 Release date 1959 Label Verve Records | Artist Ramsey Lewis Producer Jack Tracy Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded November 6 and December 4, 1958
Ter-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago Down to Earth
(1958) An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio
(1959) Similar An Hour with the Ramsey, Stretching Out, The Sound of Spring, More Music from the Soil, Bach to the Blues | ||
Down to Earth (subtitled The Ramsey Lewis Trio Plays Music from the Soil) is the fourth album by American jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis featuring tracks recorded in 1958 and released on the EmArcy label.
Contents
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "The music (if not essential) is quite accessible while still being jazz oriented. Worth picking up".
Track listing
- "Dark Eyes" (Traditional) - 2:28
- "Come Back to Sorrento" (Traditional) - 3:10
- "Soul Mist" (Ramsey Lewis) - 3:00
- "John Henry" (Traditional) - 2:26
- "Greensleeves" (Traditional) - 4:25
- "We Blue It" (Eldee Young, Ramsey Lewis, Red Holt) - 5:01
- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 2:10
- "Suzanne" (Traditional) - 3:15
- "Billy Boy" (Traditional) - 2:37
- "Decisions" (Eldee Young) - 2:06
Personnel
Songs
1Dark Eyes2:33
2Come Back to Sorrento3:15
3Soul Mist3:03
References
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