| The In Crowd | |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Ramsey Lewis Trio |
| Cover: | The In Crowd (Ramsey Lewis album).jpg |
| Released: | July 1965 |
| Recorded: | May 13 to 15, 1965 |
| Venue: | Bohemian Caverns, Washington D.C. |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 32:09 |
| Label: | Argo LP 757 |
| Producer: | Esmond Edwards |
| Chronology: | Ramsey Lewis |
| Prev Title: | You Better Believe Me |
| Prev Year: | 1964-65 |
| Next Title: | Hang On Ramsey! |
| Next Year: | 1965 |
The In Crowd is a live album by the Ramsey Lewis Trio, recorded in 1965 at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub in Washington, D.C., and released on the Argo label.[1]
The album provided Lewis with his biggest hit, reaching the top position on the Billboard R&B Chart and No. 2 on their top 200 albums chart in 1965, and the title track single "The 'In' Crowd" reached No. 2 on the R&B Chart and No. 5 on the Hot 100 singles chart in the same year.[2] The album also received a Grammy Award in 1966 for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by an Individual or Group, and the title track single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009.[3]
AllMusic stated that "this is the moment where Lewis shined the brightest, the 'in crowd' at the club was verbally into it, and the time for this music was right".[4]