Howard Levy LIVE with Miles Levy and Larry Gray

Wed, 09/02/2015 - 9:33am
Written by howard
Topics: bass, harmonica, Howard Levy, improvisation, jazz, Piano

This is video from our one and only live gig, June 11 in Evanston, IL. 

The first tune, a free improvisation, starts at 8:18. I hope you all enjoy this. We made a CD of free improvs a few years ago. You can check it out here: http://balkansamba.com/recordings/first-takes/

When you play like this with the right people, some really good things can happen. I hope some of you check this out and enjoy it.

Vail Jazz Festival

Wed, 09/02/2015 - 7:46am
Written by howard
Topics: Howard Levy, jazz

howard levy vail jazz

From Sept. 4 I'm going to be playing at this festival with a lot of great Jazz musicians. I hope that some of you can come out to this. http://www.vailjazz.org/

Howard Levy Playing Blues in 12 Keys on Harmonica

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:20pm
Written by ArtistWorks
Topics: harmonica, Howard Levy

ArtistWorks instructor Howard Levy was recently interviewed on WBUR.org's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" by guest host Jane Clayson. Check out this great clip of Howard playing blues in all 12 keys on harmonica, and listen below to the full interview from WBUR.org:

Howard's F# Blues

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 7:14pm
Written by howard
Topics: harmonica, Howard Levy

Here's a track from "Tonight and Tomorrow", a CD I recorded just before I started this harmonica school. I was listening to the final mixes as I filmed the core lessons for the school out in Napa. This was named one of the top 100 CD's of 2010 by Downbeat Magazine. I played piano and overdubbed harmonica. I am playing a B harp in Cross (2nd position). The bassist is Larry Gray and the drummer is Ernie Adams. I recommend that you buy the CD, but as we all know, you can hear/see everything on YouTube these days. We recorded the whole thing in 2 6 hour sessions, the way they did Jazz albums way back when.