| 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]
Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic praised the album. As he proclaimed "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".[3]
The In Crowd won a Grammy in 1966 for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by an Individual or Group. As well the album's title track single was Grammy nominated for Record of the Year. In 2009 this said song was eventually inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[4] [5]