Re: ramsey lewis album

Jim Ayson (jra@europa.com)
Tue, 20 Jun 95 04:09 PDT


At 08:14 PM 18/06/1995 EDT, Sean Silcoff wrote:
>Re: earlier news of a Ramsey Lewis find in a Vancouver used CD store...
>Yup, the album is Sun Goddess. It's super cheesy jazzfunk, takes a bit of
>getting used to and likely to cause you to go flush with embarrassment if
>you're playing it for musically intolerant friends who say things like, "this
>sounds like a bad TV theme" when you play Corduroy. It's way out on the
>goofy meter, but dammit, I like it. I've heard better by him, however.

Yep - I like it too. Never thought of it as a cheesy TV theme though. It was
also recorded by Earth Wind & Fire on their live "Gratitude" album (Maurice
White did play drums for the Ramsey Lewis trio).

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