Ramsey Lewis – “Taming The 88”

We caught up with jazz legend Ramsey Lewis at his Chicago home, just prior to heading out on the road for a tour with singer Ann Hampton Calloway. He talks to Dennis Green about his off again-on again retirement plans, becoming the interviewer rather than the interviewee on a past BET show, and “taming the 88.”

“A Night of Chicago Jazz” stops at Hoyt-Sherman Place in Des Moines on Sept. 28. Tickets at www.civicmusic.org.