Billy Taylor and Ramsey Lewis Have Got Some Serious Rhythm

Piano Duo Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor from Billy s 80s TV show, Jazz Counterpoint. Ramsey Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ramsey Lewis, Sr. and Pauline Lewis. Lewis began taking piano lessons at the age of four. At 15 he joined his first jazz band, The Cleffs. The sevenpiece group provided Lewis his first involvement with jazz; he would later join Cleffs drummer Isaac Redd Holt and bassist Eldee Young to form the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Lewis is a graduate of DePaul University. The trio started