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Start Date: December 22, 2014
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ARTIST: Ramsey Lewis Trio
TITLE: Sound Of Christmas
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: Argo
PRODUCT #: LP-687X

RECORD CONDITION: VG- SUPER CLEAN AND SHINY BUT HAS MANY SURFACE SCRATCHES AND SOME REGULAR SCRATCHES. TEST PLAYED, NO SKIPS! (PRICE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY) 
JACKET CONDITION: G+ HAS LARGE VARIOUS CREASES ALONG SPINE, MULTIPLE SCRATCHES ON FRONT, STAINS/DISCOLORATION AND WRITING ON BACK, AND PEELING ON EDGES AND SPINE. SEE PICTURES
DESCRIPTION: IN MONO!

"This is a pleasing, if rather brief (29 minutes) Christmas jazz album that was originally quite popular." - Scott Yanow & allmusic.com

"Pianist and composer Ramsey Lewis has been a major figure in contemporary jazz since the late 1950s, playing music with a warm, open personality that's allowed him to cross over to the pop and R&B charts. Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 27, 1935, and was introduced to music by his father, who directed the choir at a local church and enjoyed the music of Duke Ellington and Art Tatum. Lewis began studying the piano when he was four years old, and was soon accompanying the choir at Sunday services. At the age of 15, he joined a jazz combo called the Cleffs, who played at parties and dances. Lewis was interested in a leaner, more bebop-oriented sound, and when the group splintered after several members joined the military, he formed the Ramsey Lewis Trio with two other former Cleffs, bassist Eldee Young, and percussionist Redd Holt. The trio became a fixture on the Chicago jazz scene, and they were signed to a deal with Chess Records, releasing their first album, Ramsey Lewis & His Gentlemen of Jazz, in 1956." - Mark Deming & allmusic.com

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