Chance Encounter (album)

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	[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[2]

Chance Encounter is a studio album by American jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1982 on Columbia Records.^[3] The album reached No. 16 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.^[4]

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

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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[4]	10

References

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