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Your Hips Will Move to the Beat on Their Own! Let Me Tell You About the Dangerously Addictive Soul-Jazz Classic "The 'In' Crowd" by Ramsey Lewis Trio! Hey hey hey! Groove addicts across the country, are your hips shaking today?! I'm Funky Dave Monroe, JOCOLLA Music News' resident funk enthusiast—the guy whose right foot starts locking into the offbeat before his pen even hits the page! Quick question: have you ever encountered a sound so irresistible that the second you hear it, you just want to drop every single daily task and start stepping? Full confession: this morning on a packed train, the moment this track hit my earbuds, I nearly busted out a hard offbeat knee-lift while still clutching the hand strap, earning a massive double-take from the salaryman next to me. I almost completely grooved myself right out of polite society! Today, the spotlight is on the prime culprit behind that madness! We're talking about the ridiculously addictive charm of the soul-jazz classic of the century, "The 'In' Crowd," released by the Ramsey Lewis Trio, led by Chicago's genius pianist Ramsey Lewis! …