The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ramsey Lewis

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ramsey Lewis

12/12/2001; 6/29/2004; 12/20/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2001.040

Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis (1935 - ) formed the Ramsey Lewis Trio in 1956. The Trio, composed of Eldee Young and Red Holt, played in famous New York jazz clubs and toured as full-time jazz musicians. Lewis has a daily radio show, 'The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show' in Chicago and a weekly syndicated jazz show. He was named artistic director of the Ravinia Jazz Festival in 1992. Lewis was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/12/2001, 6/29/2004 and 12/20/2004, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 3; Total Tapes: 10; Total Run Time: 04h 37m 28s

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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 ex...