When jazz giant Ramsey Lewis greeted his Atlanta friend, pianist Joe Alterman on a phone call, he invariably started with the same proclamation, usually spoken twice: “Life is good! Life is GOOD!” ...

Ramsey Lewis, a pianist who sustained connections between jazz and popular music at a time when those bonds often seemed fragile and imperiled, died on Monday in Chicago, his hometown. He was 87. His ...

This week the world of jazz lost one of its last great proselytizers. Ramsey Lewis' death at 87 doesn’t just mark an end for a man but in many ways also marks the end of an era for music and for his ...

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