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Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950) is an American
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drummer, composer, and educator.


Early life

Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950, in
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. His father, Richard Lewis, who played saxophone and mother, Camille, a pianist-vocalist were both classically trained musicians who performed with many of the "territory bands" that toured the midwest in the forties. Consequently, Victor grew up with jazz as well as popular and European classical music at home. He would also go with his father to hear touring big bands as they passed through Omaha, such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman. Victor started studying music when he was ten and a half years old. Too small for the acoustic bass, he began on cello, but switched to the drums a year and a half later inspired by the drum line marching in holiday parades. As part of his formal studies, he also studied classical piano.


Career

By the time he was 15, Victor began playing drums professionally on the local scene. As one of the few drummers who could read music, he jumped ahead of many of the older musicians for calls on commercial jobs. His big band jazz drumming style was greatly changed after hearing a record of Tony Williams with Miles Davis' Quintet. In addition to Williams, he was greatly influenced by the jazz combo styles of
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. He started his own small group to play around town and quickly ascended to playing with nationally known jazz musicians, the first of which was accompanying
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in Omaha. In 1974 Lewis moved to Manhattan, Victor's first gig there was a night at Boomer's with bassist
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, where he met trumpeter
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. Lewis joined the trumpeter's band, becoming a steady member, and a just a few months later he made his recording debut on Shaw's classic, The Moontrane. In the early seventies, the fusion and pop-jazz scenes were becoming popular. Quickly adapting, the drummer was soon recording with
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. On his first outing with Sanborn, Lewis recorded his own compositions, "Seventh Avenue" and "Sophisticated Squaw" (a/k/a "Agaya") and later "The Legend of the Cheops." In 1980, Lewis left Shaw's group to join Stan Getz, in a long collaboration that lasted until the saxophonist's death in 1991. Throughout the eighties, Lewis was one of jazz's busiest freelancers, touring and recording with, among others,
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., The Manhattan Jazz Quintet,
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and Bobby Watson. As an educator, Lewis has contributed as a freelance instructor with The New School University Jazz School-Mannes Music School Jazz Program in New York City and appears in drum clinics around the world. In 2003 Lewis joined the faculty of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ where he teaches drummers and coaches jazz combos. In the press, there have been several feature articles about him in publications such as ''Downbeat'', ''The Wire'', ''Jazz Times'' and ''Modern Drummer''.


Discography


As leader

* 1992: ''Family Portrait'' ( AudioQuest) with John Stubblefield, Edward Simon,
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, Jumma Santos * 1992: ''Know It Today, Know It Tomorrow'' (
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) with Eddie Henderson, Edward Simon,
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* 1997: ''Eeeyyess!!'' ( Enja) with Seamus Blake, Terell Stafford, Stephen Scott, Ed Howard (Enja) * 1998: ''Three Way Conversations'' (Red) with Seamus Blake, Steve Wilson, Terell Stafford


As sideman

With John Abercrombie, Arthur Blythe, and Jeff Palmer * ''Ease On'' ( AudioQuest, 1993) With George Adams *''
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'' (Blue Note, 1989) With
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* ''Grey'' (Quinton, 2001) With
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* '' What If?'' ( Enja, 1986) * '' Live at Fat Tuesdays'' (Enja, 1988) * ''
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'' (Enja, 1991) * '' The Moment'' (Reservoir, 1991) * '' Other Places'' ( Verve, 1993) * '' Sambao'' (Gitanes/ EmArcy, 1992) * '' Things Unseen'' (Verve, 1997) With Gary Bartz * ''
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'' ( Timeless, 1991) With Roni Ben-Hur and Nilson Matta * ''Mojave'' ( Motéma, 2011) With Andy Bey * ''Shades of Bey'' (12th Street/
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, 1998) * ''Tuesdays in Chinatown'' (12th Street/N2K Encoded Music, 2001) With
Carla Bley Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936 – October 17, 2023) was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she gained acclaim for her jazz opera ''Escalator ...
* '' Heavy Heart'' (Watt, 1983) * '' Night-Glo'' (Watt, 1985) * ''
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'' (Watt, 1987) * '' The Very Big Carla Bley Band'' (Watt, 1991) * '' 4 x 4'' (Watt, 2000) * ''Live in Montreal'' (DVD-V, Universal, 2003) With
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* ''Speachless'' ( SteepleChase, 1995) * ''Reality Check'' (SteepleChase, 1996) With
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* '' Seven Standards 1985, Vol. 1 & 2'' (Magenta, 1985 & 1986) With
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*'' Senorita de Aranjuez'' (Meldec Jazz, 2001) *'' Looking for the Light'' (MuseFX, 2003) *'' A Letter to Dexter'' (Kind of Blue, 2006) *'' My Muse'' (HighNote, 2012) *'' Icons & Influences'' (HighNote, 2014) *'' In Good Company'' (HighNote, 2015) *'' The George Cables Songbook'' (HighNote, 2016) With James Carter * '' Gardenias for Lady Day'' (Columbia, 2003) * '' Present Tense'' (EmArcy, 2008) With Cyrus Chestnut *'' A Million Colors in Your Mind'' (HighNote, 2015) With
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* ''Crosstalk'' (Pirouet, 2011) With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis * '' The Heavy Hitter'' (
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, 1979) With
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* '' Blame It on My Youth'' (
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, 1988) With Barry Finnerty * ''Straight Ahead'' (
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, 1994) With
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* '' The Dolphin'' (
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, 1981) * ''
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'' (Concord Jazz, 1981
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'' (EmArcy, 1981 990 * '' Pure Getz'' (Concord Jazz, 1982) * '' Stan Getz Quartet Live in Paris'' (Dreyfus Jazz, 1982
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* '' Line for Lyons'' with
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, 1983) * '' The Stockholm Concert'' (Sonet, 1983
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* '' Voyage'' (BlackHawk, 1986) * '' Anniversary!'' (EmArcy, 1987
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* '' Serenity'' (EmArcy, 1987
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With
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* '' Sophisticated Giant'' ( Columbia, 1977) With G.org featuring
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* ''A New Kind of Blue'' (A Nest of Eggs, 2004) With Steve Grossman * ''Perspective'' (
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, 1979) With Mark Helias * ''The Current Set'' (Enja, 1987) With
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* '' Naima's Love Song'' featuring Bobby Watson ( DIW, 1988) * '' East Side Blues'' (DIW, 1988) * '' Lover Man: A Tribute to Billie Holiday'' (Red Baron, 1993) * '' Cry Me a River'' (Venus, 1997) With
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* '' Cruisin' the 'Bird'' (
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, 1988) With J. J. Johnson * ''Standards'' (EmArcy, 1991) * ''Heroes'' (Verve, 1998) With Jonny King *'' Above All'' (Sunnyside, 2010
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With
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'' (Freedom/Arista, 1975) With the Hubert Laws Group * '' A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' (Columbia, 1978) With
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* ''Setting the Standard '' (Red, 1993) With Abbey Lincoln * '' A Turtle's Dream'' (Gitanes/Verve, 1994) With Carmen Lundy * ''Good Morning Kiss'' (BlackHawk, 1986) * ''This Is Carmen Lundy'' (Afrasia, 2001) * ''Something to Believe In'' ( Justin Time, 2003) * ''Jazz and the New Songbook: Live at the Madrid'' (Afrasia, 2005) * ''Night and Day'' (Afrasia, 2011) With Charles McPherson *'' First Flight Out'' (Araesque, 1994) *'' Manhattan Nocturne'' (Arabesque, 1998) With
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* '' Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown'' (Verve, 1994) With Karlheinz Miklin * ''Next Page'' (1991) With
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*'' Furthermore'' (Landmark, 1990) With David Murray * '' Lucky Four'' (Tutu, 1988) * '' MX'' (
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, 1992) With New York Rhythm Machine * '' Blues March: Portrait of Art Blakey'' (Venus, 1992) * '' Moanin': Portrait of Art Blakey'' (Venus, 1992) With Judy Niemack *''Blue Nights'' ( BluJazz, 2007) featuring Jeanfrançois Prins, Gary Bartz, Jim McNeely With Jeanfrançois Prins *''El Gaucho'' ( Challenge Records, 2012) featuring Rich Perry With Charlie Rouse *'' Soul Mates'' ( Uptown, 1988 993 featuring Sahib Shihab With George Russell's New York Band * '' Live in an American Time Spiral'' ( Soul Note, 1982) With
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* '' Invitation'' (1993) With
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, 1976) * '' Promise Me the Moon'' (Warner Bros., 1977) With
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* '' The Moontrane'' (
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, 1975) * '' Love Dance'' (Muse, 1975) * '' The Iron Men'' (Muse, 1977, released 1980) * ''
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'' (Columbia, 1977) * '' Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard'' (Columbia, 1978) * ''
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* ''With a Song in My Heart'' (
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, 1998) With John Stubblefield * ''Bushman Song'' (Enja, 1986) * ''Countin' on the Blues'' (Enja, 1987) With Charles Sullivan *'' Kamau'' (Arabesque, 1995) With
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* '' Carla'' (Xtra Watt, 1987) With Harvie Swartz * ''Urban Earth'' ( Gramavision, 1985) * ''Smart Moves'' (Gramavision, 1986) With
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* ''Desert Lady'' ( Concord, 1989) With Charles Tolliver * ''
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'' (Blue Note, 2006) With Steve Turre * ''Rhythm Within'' (
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, 1995) * ''Steve Turre'' (Verve, 1997) * ''TNT (Trombone-n-Tenor)'' (
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, 2001) With
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* '' Jazz French Horn'' (Soul Note, 1985) With
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* '' Journey, Man!'' (Evidence 1995) With
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, 1996) With Bobby Watson & Horizon * ''No Question About It'' (Blue Note, 1988) * ''Post-Motown Bop'' (Blue Note, 1990) * ''The Inventor'' (Blue Note, 1990) * ''Present Tense'' (Columbia, 1992) * ''Midwest Shuffle'' (Columbia, 1994) With
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* '' Khepera'' (Verve, 2000) With Larry Willis *''
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References


Further reading

* Ineck, Tom (November 4, 1993)
"Jazz drummer Victor Lewis remembers his days at UNL"
''Lincoln Journal Star''. p. 13


External links


Wayne Shorter discography, album releases & credits
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