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 Howard Levy's Profile |
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| Location: | CHICAGO, Illinois |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Nov 4, 2008 (419 days back) |
About Me |
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| Out of the Box DVD Vol. 1 Add to My Profile | More Videos Howard Levy - Kansas City Blues Add to My Profile | More Videos You Are My Salvation Add to My Profile | More Videos Amazing Grace Pt. 1 Add to My Profile | More Videos Amazing Grace pt 2 Add to My Profile | More Videos Howard Levy is a musician without limits. His musical adventures include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, world music, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, theater, and film. He has appeared on hundred of cds, won a Grammy (1997), won a Joseph Jefferson Award (1986) for Best Original Music for a Play, and has performed many times on American and European television and radio. Universally acknowledged as the world’s most advanced diatonic harmonica player, Howard developed a fully chromatic style on the standard 10 - hole diatonic harmonica, revolutionizing harmonica playing and taking the instrument into totally new territory. He is also an accomplished pianist and composer, and plays many other instruments as well, including flute, ocarina, mandolin, saxophone, and percussion. Howard was a founding member of the Bela Fleck and the Flecktones . He toured and recorded two albums with Kenny Loggins, and formed Trio Globo with Eugene Friesen and Glen Velez . Howard has also performed and/or recorded with Dolly Parton, Styx, Bobby McFerrin, Paul Simon, John Prine, Paquito D’Rivera, Ken Nordine , and many others, as well as touring and recording extensively in Europe with artists such as Rabih Abou Khalil and Michael Riessler . Recent Highlights In 2003, Howard released a jazz duo cd with Naumberg Award-winning pianist Anthony Molinaro , entitled The Molinaro/Levy Project “Live”. In 2002, he performed “On the Other Side...” (a triple concerto composed for him, a clarinetist and an accordianist) with The Bavarian State Radio Orchestra in Munich, Germany. In 2001, Howard was commisioned by The Illinois Philharmonic to compose a Harmonica Concerto, the first ever written for diatonic harmonica. Since the debut, he has performed it 9 times, with more perfomances scheduled. Current Chicago Bands Howard is music director of Chévere , Chicago’s hottest Latin-Jazz-Fusion Band, whose first cd will be released soon. He also leads a 4 piece band called Howard Levy’s Accoustic Express , also with a cd to be released soon. Movies, Dance, Theater Howard’s harmonica playing was featured on the soundtracks of “A Family Thing”, “Striptease” , “ A Time to Kill” , “Straight Talk”, and “Vietnam, A Long Time Coming”. He collaborated with Indian dancer Ranee Ramaswamy in “Where the Hands Go, The Eyes Follow”, a fusion of photography, poetry, dance, and music, all live, with poets Robert Bligh and Coleman Barks. He has performed with members of The Hubbard St. and Joffrey dance companies in “Moody Hollow”, choreographed by Lauri Stallings. In theater, he won a Joseph Jefferson Award for his music for Brecht’s “Puntila and his Hired Man” (1986). In 1997 he co-wrote the music for “Tales From Trashmania”, a one woman show by Bonnie Koloc. Some Quotes "...Playing an extended solo that somehow merged quasi-baroque techniques with swing rhythms, snippets of hokey holiday tunes with passages of brilliant jazz improvisation, Levy unleashed more ideas in this opening solo than many musicians do in an entire set." Howard Reich , The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 1996 "...Howard Levy is a revelation; there are times when it is hard to believe he is playing only a harmonica, for he has the expressive range and depth of a saxophonist." Geoff Dyer , The London Observer, March 1994 "... may be the most radical single technical innovator in the history of his instrument..." Kim Field , Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers, Simon & Schuster 1993 Education Howard Levy studied piano and theory at The Manhattan School of Music in N.Y. for four years, then studied pipe organ with Carl Lambert for two years. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, playing in the Jazz band. As a music educator, Howard has taught hundreds of students privately, and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Berklee, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, Francis Parker School, given jazz clinics at high schools, and has given hundreds of perfomances of "Music from around the World," a program of international music for children and adults. Howard has an instructional video on Homespun Tapes. Called "New Directions for Harmonica". It deals with every aspect of Howard's revolutionary techniques, repair and adjustment of the harmonica, improvisational music theory. There is even has a section using ultrasound that shows the inside of a harmonica player's mouth as he plays. Other Videos |
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Music:Member Since: 12/16/2006Band Website: levyland.com Sounds Like: : : Record Label: Balkan Samba Records Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Jazz) |
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Levy Log 5 - With Rabih Abou Khalil in Taiwan |
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| With Rabih Abou Khalil in Taiwan
Touring with Rabih Abou Khalil was always an adventure. We met playing a concert in Athens with Glen Velez in 1991 (I was on a break from the Flecktones). I played mor... Posted by Howard Levy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:57:00 PST |
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Levy Log 4 - An Arabian Tent Party Wedding |
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| An Arabian Tent Party WeddingUnusual gigs I used to do in Chicago... I never played too many "jobbing dates", as they are called in Chicago. But in the early and mid 80's, I did don my tuxedo and vent... Posted by Howard Levy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST |
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Levy Log 3 - Brasil |
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| Brasil
I finally played in Brasil this past July. Thanks to the efforts of my friend Geraldo DeOliveira in Chicago, and Ciro Cruz and Flavio Guimaraes in Brasil, everything happened just as it was sup... Posted by Howard Levy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:51:00 PST |
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Levy Log 2 - Prague |
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| Prague
I just got back from playing 2 concerts in The Czech Republic. Thanks to the tireless work of long- time friend Slavek Hanslik, the experience was a wonderful one. I played at The Lucerna in Pr... Posted by Howard Levy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:50:00 PST |
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Levy Log 1 - The Star Spangled Banner |
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| The Star Spangled Banner
I have had the honor of playing the national anthem three times in Chicago, twice for the White Sox once for the Bulls. Each time, something surrealistic happened, and I'll sh... Posted by Howard Levy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:48:00 PST |
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