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Down to Earth (Ramsey Lewis album)

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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

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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

  1. "Dark Eyes" (Traditional) - 2:28
  2. "Come Back to Sorrento" (Traditional) - 3:10
  3. "Soul Mist" (Ramsey Lewis) - 3:00
  4. "John Henry" (Traditional) - 2:26
  5. "Greensleeves" (Traditional) - 4:25
  6. "We Blue It" (Eldee Young, Ramsey Lewis, Red Holt) - 5:01
  7. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 2:10
  8. "Suzanne" (Traditional) - 3:15
  9. "Billy Boy" (Traditional) - 2:37
  10. "Decisions" (Eldee Young) - 2:06

Personnel

  • Ramsey Lewis - piano
  • El Dee Young - bass
  • Issac "Red" Holt - drums

    • Songs

    1Dark Eyes2:33
    2Come Back to Sorrento3:15
    3Soul Mist3:03

    References

    Down to Earth (Ramsey Lewis album) Wikipedia
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