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1982 studio album by Ramsey Lewis

Chance Encounter

Studio album by Ramsey Lewis

Released

1982 (1982)

Studio

CBS Recording Studios, New York, New York; PS Studios, Chicago, Illinois

Genre

Jazz

Length

35:33

Label

Columbia

Producer

George Butler (Exec.), Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Lewis chronology

Three Piece Suite
(1981)

Chance Encounter
(1982)

Les Fleurs
(1983)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Chance Encounter is a studio album by American jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1982 on Columbia Records. The album reached No. 16 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"What's Going On"	Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye	4:52
2.	"Chance Encounter"	Ramsey Lewis	4:50
3.	"Up Where We Belong"	Jack Nitzsche	3:59
4.	"Intimacy"	Ramsey Lewis	5:09
5.	"A Special Place"	B. Dickens	4:35
6.	"Paradise"	R. Irving III	5:10
7.	"I Can't Wait"	B. Dickens	3:54
8.	"Just a Little Ditty"	B. Dickens	3:04

Personnel

Ramsey Lewis - grand piano, electric piano
Bill Dickens - bass guitar
Frank Donaldson - drums
Byron Gregory - guitar, sitar
Geraldo de Oliveira - percussion
Tom Tom 84 - percussion
Tim Tobias - synthesizer
Ellen Samuels - backing vocals
Benny Diggs - vocals
Kevin Owens - vocals
Aaron Mills - bass
Morris Jennings - drums
T. C. Campbell - electric piano
Morris Gray - lead vocals
Pat Shannon - lead vocals
Scott Litt - engineer

Charts

Chart positions for *Chance Encounter*
Chart (1982)	Peak position
Billboard Jazz Albums	10

References

"Ramsey Lewis: Chance Encounter". AllMusic.
The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 424.
^ Ramsey Lewis: Chance Encounter. Columbia Records. 1982.
^ Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs (PDF). Vol. 95. Billboard. January 8, 1983. p. 59. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

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Studio albums	Ramsey Lewis and his Gentle-men of Swing (1956) Ramsey Lewis and his Gentle-men of Jazz (1958) Lem Winchester and the Ramsey Lewis Trio (1958) Down to Earth (1959) An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio (1959) Stretching Out (1960) More Music from the Soil (1961) Never on Sunday (1961) Sound of Christmas (1961) The Sound of Spring (1962) Country Meets the Blues (1962) Bossa Nova (1962) Pot Luck (1963) Barefoot Sunday Blues (1963) Bach to the Blues (1964) More Sounds of Christmas (1964) You Better Believe Me (1964) Wade in the Water (1966) The Movie Album (1966) Goin' Latin (1967) Up Pops Ramsey Lewis (1967) Maiden Voyage (1968) Mother Nature's Son (1968) Another Voyage (1969) The Piano Player (1969) Back to the Roots (1971) Upendo Ni Pamoja (1972) Funky Serenity (1973) Ramsey Lewis' Newly Recorded All-Time Non-Stop Golden Hits (1973) Solar Wind (1974) Sun Goddess (1974) Don't It Feel Good (1975) Salongo (1976) Love Notes (1977) Tequila Mockingbird (1977) Legacy (1978) Routes (1980) Chance Encounter (1982) Les Fleurs (1983) The Two of Us (1984) Fantasy (1985) Keys to the City (1987) We Meet Again (1989) Ivory Pyramid (1992) Sky Islands (1993) Urban Knights I (1994) Urban Knights II (1997) Appassionata (1999)
Live albums	The Ramsey Lewis Trio in Chicago (1960) The Ramsey Lewis Trio at the Bohemian Caverns (1964) The In Crowd (1965) Hang On Ramsey! (1965) Dancing in the Street (1967) Them Changes (1970) The Groover (1972)
Singles	"The 'In' Crowd" "Hang On Sloopy" "Wade in the Water" "Sun Goddess"

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