{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Urban Knights V | type = Studio | artist = Urban Knights | cover = Urban Knights V.jpg | alt = | released = 2003 | recorded = | venue = | studio = *Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, Illinois *The Rhythm Cafe, Chicago, Illinois | genre = Jazz | length = 55:05 | label = Narada | producer = Ramsey Lewis | prev_title = The Chicago Project | prev_year = 2002 | next_title = Urban Knights VI | next_year = 2005 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=Allmusic>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/urban-knights-vol-5-mw0000597562|title=Urban Knights: Urban Knights V|author=Greenburg, Adam|publisher= Allmusic}}</ref> | rev2 = Jazz Times | rev2Score = (favourable)<ref name=JazzTimes>{{cite web|url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/currents/urban-knights-urban-knights-v/|title=Urban Knights: Urban Knights V|author=Tauss, Lucy|date=September 1, 2003|publisher=Jazz Times}}</ref> | rev3 = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name=PPG /> }}
'''''Urban Knights V''''' is the sixth album by the jazz group Urban Knights released in 2003 on Narada Records.<ref name=Album>{{cite book|title=Urban Knights: Urban Knights V|date=2003|publisher=Narada Records}}</ref> The album reached No. 15 on the US ''Billboard'' Top Jazz Albums chart and No. 7 on the US ''Billboard'' Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/urban-knights/chart-history/JLS/song/437317|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109133636/https://www.billboard.com/music/urban-knights/chart-history/JLS/song/437317|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2019|title=Urban Knights Chart History: Jazz Albums)|publisher=Billboard}}</ref><ref name=BBD2>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/urban-knights/chart-history/JCR|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109133759/https://www.billboard.com/music/urban-knights/chart-history/JCR|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2019|title=Urban Knights: Contemporary Jazz Albums|magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
==Overview== ''Urban Knights V'' was executively produced by Ramsey Lewis. Artists such as Kenny Garrett and Michelle Williams appeared on the album.<ref name=Album />
The Urban Knights covered Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up", Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" and Chicago's "Will You Still Love Me?" on the album.<ref name=Allmusic /><ref name="Jazziz">{{cite web |title=On Disc |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/194490040 |access-date=January 2, 2025 |publisher=Jazziz |page=24 |volume=20 |issue=9date=September 2003| id={{ProQuest|194490040}} }}</ref><ref name=PPG>{{cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/390922333|title=Urban Knights: Urban Knights V|author=Nowlin, Rick|date=December 28, 2003|publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=January 2, 2025|id={{ProQuest|390922333}} }}</ref>
==Critical reception== Lucy Tauss of ''JazzTimes'' remarked "''Urban Knights V''...showcases burgeoning Chicago talent as well as well-established members of the jazz community."<ref name=JazzTimes />
Adam Greenburg of AllMusic lauded the album saying, "As far as smooth jazz goes, this is an outstanding collection from the all-stars of the genre, complete with some thoroughly worked-out funkiness at the hands of Lewis as the need arises....Both newcomers to the genre or old Ramsey Lewis fans should give it a listen."<ref name=Allmusic />
Rick Nowlin of the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' took note that, "This band, so to speak -- I put it that way because of the rotating personnel -- is a long-running side project for Chicago- based producer Frayne Lewis, who brought this talent together. Of course, having his father, pianist Ramsey, in the fold makes for good listening."<ref name=PPG />
==Track listing== {{Track listing | title1 = Got to Give It Up | note1 = featuring Ramsey Lewis | length1 = 3:53 | title2 = Quiet Heart | note2 = featuring Kenny Garrett | length2 = 5:04 | title3 = Church | note3 = featuring Ramsey Lewis | length3 = 4:29 | title4 = Will You Still Love Me? | note4 = featuring Michelle Williams | length4 = 4:43 | title5 = On the Up | note5 = featuring Kenny Garrett | length5 = 6:26 | title6 = King | note6 = featuring Henry Johnson | length6 = 4:30 | title7 = I Can See Clearly Now | note7 = featuring Steve Zoloto | length7 = 5:00 | title8 = No One | note8 = featuring Paul Walton | length8 = 4:48 | title9 = The New Funktier | note9 = featuring Orbert Davis | length9 = 5:49 | title10 = Dream | note10 = featuring Steve Zoloto | length10 = 4:53 | title11 = Honor Him/Now We Are Free | note11 = featuring Ramsey Lewis | length11 = 5:30 }}
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