Dance of the Soul
Download links and information about Dance of the Soul by Ramsey Lewis. This album was released in 1997 and it belongs to Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz genres. It contains 10 tracks with total duration of 51:07 minutes.
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| Artist: | Ramsey Lewis |
| Release date: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz |
| Tracks: | 10 |
| Duration: | 51:07 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Balle del Alma (Dance of the Soul) | 6:36 |
| 2. | Fragile | 4:09 |
| 3. | Sub Dude | 4:22 |
| 4. | Lullabye | 5:30 |
| 5. | Portugese Love | 3:56 |
| 6. | Fire and Rain | 4:30 |
| 7. | Canción | 5:55 |
| 8. | Love's Serenade | 4:31 |
| 9. | Mercy and Grace | 4:04 |
| 10. | Cante Hondo (Deep Song) | 7:34 |
Details
[Edit]One of his more memorable GRP dates of the 1990s, Dance of the Soul finds Ramsey Lewis playing mostly acoustic piano on a variety of material. The CD's main focus is accessible, yet creative, jazz-pop, though Lewis detours into gospel on "Mercy and Grace," classical on the acoustic solo piano piece "Cante Hondo (Deep Song)," and jazzy R&B on a remake of Teena Marie's 1981 gem "Portuguese Love" (which features the big-voiced singer Donica Henderson). The Chicagoan has some nice solos on melodic instrumentals like "Sub Dude," "Cancion," and the Joe Sample-ish "Love's Serenade," all of which demonstrate that commercial jazz-pop can be creative as well as highly accessible. In fact, these are the sorts of instrumentals one should use to turn pop and R&B fans on to jazz — they're easy to absorb, but have a lot more substance than the type of mindless "elevator Muzak" that many pop instrumentalists favored in the 1990s. Although not a masterpiece, Dance of the Soul is a decent effort that has more ups than downs.