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Pete Levin, Jesse Gress, Todd Rundgren, Tony Levin, Larry Fast, and Jerry Marotta

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Levin Bros: Bananna’s Comedy Shack 2020

Unbeknownst to me, southside stalwart Reggies turned their upstairs space (recently vacated by excellent record store Record Breakers, who moved to Avondale) into a comedy club...which turned out to be the best room for jazz/fusion/prog/etc of the 3 musicrooms in that building. A welcome addition to their arsenal since they’re always bringing such sounds down to Motor Row.  Also unbeknownst to me was the fact that Tony Levin and his brother Pete started a band a few years ago. Instead of blathering on, I’ll just let Pete explain what they sound like: “We were fascinated by the Cool Jazz of the 50s that we’d listened to as kid. 40/50 years later we could actually sing some of the songs to each other and remember some of the solos we’d heard…pretty amazing. We thought that had some validity, so we decided to do an album and wrote some original music. Over the years we’ve picked up idears...we’d hear something that we want to do – a composer, a rock artist, anybody writing an interesting piece of music – and we’d give it a shot [in that style].” Levin Brothers 1.16.2020 @ Bananna’s Comedy Shack Chicago, IL Out of Darkness Up From the Skies [The Jimi Hendrix Experience] Deacon Blues [Steely Dan] Kakilambe Peter Gunn Theme [Henry Mancini] Little Sunflower [Freddie Hubbard] Bells The Meaning of the Blues [Bobby Troup] Jump Ballad of the Innocent [Jeff Siegel] When I Was Young Hidden Drive [David Spinozza] Gimme Some Scratch Sleepless [King Crimson] encore: Icarus [Ralph Towner] Pete Levin - keyboards Tony Levin - electric upright bass Jeff Siegel - drums Jeff Ciampa - guitar stream download

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Live Review: Pete Levin’s Möbius at the Jazz Forum, Tarrytown New York, March 30th 2018

Pete Levin: keyboards; Alex Foster: tenor saxophone; Jeff Ciampa: guitar; Ira Coleman: bass; Nanny Assis: percussion; Lenny White: drums.

Keyboardist Pete Levin has nine releases under his own name, but may be most known for his associations with the late Gil Evans and Jimmy Giuffre among others. If the name Levin is familiar to music fans that's because bassist brother Tony had been a part of such legendary bands like King Crimson and Liquid Tension Experiment.  The keyboardist brought a wide range of influences and integrated them into a seamless whole at the Jazz Forum in Tarrytown, New York, Friday March 30th with a well oiled band including tenor saxophonist Alex Foster, trumpeter Chris Pasin, Jeff Ciampa on guitar, bassist Ira Coleman, percussionist Nanny Assis, and Lenny White on drums.  The band covered music found on last years debut Möbius and did so with supreme attention to detail especially in the realms of truly being a collective.  The Jazz Forum is a quaint, charming intimate 90 seat venue in Tarrytown, that allows the audience to be up close and personal with the musicians in the best way

The set lead off with “Promises”, the first track the album.  White's trademark of powerful, unyielding groove underscored  the high flying solos of Foster and Pasin.  The beautiful ballad “Another Time, Another Place” recalled the nautical mood of Herbie Hancock's “Maiden Voyage” and deftly featured Levin's emulated Rhodes, a bulldozing, passionate Foster, Freddie Hubbard like fluidity from Pasin and White soaring over a vamp at the end.  Levin then spoke to the audience announcing this year marks the hundredth anniversary of Thelonious Monk's birth and the importance of the year 1917. This milestone is not significant being the year of the first jazz recording, “The Dixie One Step” by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, but also the births of celebrities, and John F. Kennedy.  The group proceeded to play a scorching rendition of the classic “I Mean You” incorporating a tri tone figure Gil Evans used to play, as a hilarious aside recognizable to most as the bridge used in “Well You Needn't”. The whole band was on full tilt modulating between funk and gale force swing courtesy of White's intuitiveness.  The set closer, the grooving 12/8 “Kakilambe” found the whole band in fine form.

Pete Levin's Möbius is a wonderful group that is so democratic in nature, each musician brings their own signature to the pot, like spices in a meal, but the overall effect is one of union for a greater whole. Hearing the further adventures of this band will be most welcome, as their first set was an absolute pleasure.  

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The Jimmy Giuffre 4 - Dragonfly - Giuffre gets proggy in this 1983 track

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Levin Brothers: Not So Square Dance, 2014.

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Cool Haunters stop-motion animation by Pete Levin (Robot Chicken, etc) and Musa Brooker (Celebrity Death Match, etc)! With music by Dead Man's Bones (written/performed by Ryan Gosling & Zach Shields)!

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Levin Brothers - Levin Brothers

Levin Brothers – Levin Brothers

Not too long ago, I was contacted by Scott Scholl of Lazy Bones Recordings to let you in on a new record coming out soon.  Tony Levin (bassist – played with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson) with his brother Pete Levin (keyboards – played with Jaco Pastorious, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, and Wayne Shorter) have, for the first time, gotten together and released a ’50s-style jazz record.  I had a listen…

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