By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Soul Music Records Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr., a world-renowned jazz pianist, and composer began taking piano lessons at the age of four. On May 27, 1935, he was born in Chicago to industrious, self-taught Southern farm workers who met in church. From 1947 until 1954, Lewis attended Chicago Music College […]

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