Ramsey Lewis

This makes it even more complicated.

Bibi's election... bb is ramsey clark or ramsey lewis compared to what's in line smoltridge and others if they get involved it's it you've got people there that will blow we have to see uh uh nasa i've got to see this it's unbelievable and where of the left or right where is that sentiment on the left So if you are someone, and by the way, remember, under Biden, or technically Blinken, they were 100% on board with this, so there's really nothing different.

But El-Sayed and others, and ALC and others, I'm telling you, if you – let me ask you this.

If you believe that America has no business in foreign wars, especially what either is considered to be genocide or ethnic cleansing or – or apartheid, or whatever you want to call it, if you believe this, then the left is the only one who you talk to.

your four others?

Well, Ramsey Lewis.

I would take a Ramsey Lewis jazz disc.

There are many, many of them that would be good.

I would probably take a Dave Brubeck one with Take Five on it.

It was published in 1915, and the name of this cut that you heard by Jelly Roll is called Mr. Joe.

And before that, you heard music from Chicago's own Mr. Ramsey Lewis, the Ramsey Lewis Trio.

The name of the cut is entitled Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and that is from a 1958 album called Down to Earth.

Ramsey Lewis piano, LD Young on bass, Red Holt on drums.

Now, Ramsey Lewis recorded 80 albums throughout his career.

And he also worked with St. Louis' own Mr. Clark Terry.

Had five gold records and three Grammy Awards.

You guys did a TV show on BET.

Was it Lou Rawls or Ramsey Lewis?

I did a, well, yeah, I did a, I did both.

Oh, okay, yeah.

And with Marcus Miller.

Okay, right, right.

Oh, yeah, that was, what was the name of that thing? Yeah, that was the Ramsey Lewis show.

Okay, exactly.

So I also know that you're one of the last people to work with the great Charles Stephanie, whom, you know, for our QLS listeners, um, really i mean yeah anything on on cadet records uh the the

ramsey lewis uh the the 70s output of the dells you know even some of the blues artists like you know with muddy waters record and and the electric mud album and many rippertons uh come to my garden album but You know, most notably, he's the one that really took Earth, Wind & Fire and was a mentor to Maurice White.

So a big part of that Earth, Wind & Fire sound that we're so in love with, you know, is due to the colors that Charles Stepany painted.

Knowing nothing about him, really, could you describe what Charles Stepany was in your world and just in general for just that whole organization?

I could hear it with Les McCann.

I could hear it with Ramsey Lewis.

I could hear it with Ahmad Jamal.

But with Erroll, I couldn't even begin to imagine the man behind that sound, someone whose music could fill me with joy while making one piano sound bigger than an entire orchestra.

[upbeat jazz music] Through all of this, Erroll never stopped being a fan.

Whenever another musician played something that delighted him, he let them know.

His favorite expression was "Hoochie coo!" Ramsey Lewis once told me how happy it made him when he would be playing and suddenly hear that voice from somewhere in the room, "Hoochie coo!" When drummer Art Taylor asked Erroll what it meant in his book Notes and Tones, Erroll smiled and said...

"It means magnificent obsession." Then he explained.