Ramsey Lewis: Life is Good

This interview was first published at All About Jazz on November 11, 2012.Some jazz aficionados might characterize pianist Ramsey Lewis’ music as a gateway into more serious jazz, as if popular Lewis albums like The In Crowd (Verve, 1965) were meant to lead novice listeners to saxophonist Ornette Coleman‘s The Shape of Jazz to Come(Atlantic, 1959)…