NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis on Making Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
Length: 01:30
MOST MUSICIANS CAN POINT TO AT LEAST ONE PIVOTAL PERSON WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THEIR MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER RAMSEY LEWIS REMEMBERS: Dorothy Mendelssohn.
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MOST MUSICIANS CAN POINT TO AT LEAST ONE PIVOTAL PERSON WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THEIR MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER RAMSEY LEWIS REMEMBERS: Dorothy Mendelssohn.
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NOW, A JAZZ MOMENT…
MUSIC: “Limelight”
CD: Ramsey Lewis’s Finest Hour Verve 314 543 763-2 (cut 2)
MOST MUSICIANS CAN POINT TO AT LEAST ONE PIVOTAL PERSON WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THEIR MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER RAMSEY LEWIS REMEMBERS…
Dorothy Mendelssohn was the piano teacher at Chicago Musical College. And after a few lessons she started saying things about music. Things like, “Listen with your inner ear.” Things like, “Take this phrase, this 3-bar phrase of melody and see if you can’t make it sing.” That was a turning point.
MUSIC: up for punctuation and fades under
It went from my parents actually making me practice a half hour. Making me. To them saying 10:30, 11:00 at night, “You’ve been at it for 2-3-4 hours. Don’t you have homework? Don’t you have to go to bed? You better stop now.” I found myself in another world.
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Limelight” | Ramsey Lewis | Ramsey Lewis’s Finest Hour. | Verve | 00:00 |
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