Ramsey Lewis Collection

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Ramsey Lewis Collection

1945-2009, undated

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Collection includes press clippings, awards, honorary degrees, and photographs of Ramsey Lewis Jr., renowned jazz pianist. The majority of the collection is press clippings relating to Lewis's social appearances, performances, and CD releases from the early 1990s-2007.

3.45 Cubic feet (9 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11663337

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Ramsey Lewis Trio

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Lewis, Ramsey

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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...