He made some very ordinary seventies easy listening plus soul jazz records throughout the seventies but then made this astonishing composed side-long piece in 1977 called Legacy, standing head and shoulders above the remainder of his music--at least from the far-off-the-horizon perspective of the progressive music seeker. (If you're interested in soothing and generic music with standard chords and rehashed old melodies then you're gonna love his whole discography, of course.)
From discogs:
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr.
Profile: American jazz pianist and keyboardist, born May 27, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, died September 12, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The composition starts like this, impressively and grandiosely enough:
The piece reminds me a lot of Duke Ellington's New World a Rising, but it's not quite as tight and constrained, more improvisational and fluid.
I found another great progressive track called Gemini Rising, on the Sun Goddess album from 1974, reminding me a lot of the old classic George Duke in his best moments:
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Hi! I saw a piece you wrote on Ack van Rooyen and was wondering if you'd be interested in writing about his protege's new project. If so, where should I send it?
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I know it´a bit obscure but nevertheless it´impossible to get a cd of this great guy in Germany, so can you post
ReplyDeleteMeyer Kupferman, Jazz Symphony ?
I think you might like the cd too
what year?
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