Will Jones of the Tribune reported that Meade Lux Lewis was drawing crowds at the piano bar at the  Chateau de Paris in the Dyckman Hotel every night.  (August 23, 1963) He was either still there or there again in October.

Although the Lewis name has been associated with boogie-woogie, and although Lewis plays boogie from time to time to satisfy those who request it, his better offerings are unmistakably up-to-date.  Lewis clearly is a man who listens to contemporary jazz sounds with appreciation, who keeps producing new ideass of his own, and who combines and performs them all with the ease and taste and authority or a solid musician who has been on the scene for a long time.