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PETE'S LATEST ORGAN TRIO CD!
Available on line both as a physical CD and Digital Download at
PETE LEVIN TRIO, LIVE @ MOODY JAZZ CAFE FOGGIA, ITALY
PETE LEVIN TRIO - ON THE ROAD
Le Moulin - Paris, FR 10/08/09
Photo: Alain Chauché
The Blue Note - Milano, IT 10/13/09
Photo: Roger Salem
The Blue Note - Milano, IT 10/13/09
Photo: Roger Salem
Teatro Sociale: Stradella, Italy Dec 5
Photo: Laura Passera
Stazione Birra: Roma, Italy Dec 9
Photo: Roberto Scorta
Stazione Birra: Roma, Italy Dec 9
Photo: Roberto Scorta
Teatro Sociale: Stradella, Italy Dec 5
Photo: Laura Passera
PETE LEVIN TRIO
PETORANELLO GARDENS AMPITHEATER: PRINCETON, NJ
JUNE '08
Photo: Lorena Lavora
DEACON BLUES
After years of being a "synthesizer specialist", this project is a meaningful return to my first keyboard love, the Hammond Organ. I've been playing it for years, live and in the studio, but have never used it this way on one of my own albums. Mostly in the traditional organ trio format, the CD features brilliant guitar work by two good friends, Joe Beck and Mike DeMicco. The incredible Danny Gottlieb has the drum chair, and my brother Tony Levin is sitting in on bass for a couple of tunes, including playing lead on a beautiful Jimmy Giuffre ballad. It's an exciting project for me. I did a New York metropolitan area promo tour fronting a quartet with Joe Beck, Hot Tuna's Harvey Sorgen on drums, and Ernie Colon on percussion, finishing in NYC at the Knitting Factory. (Photo & video below) The quartet has some small gigs this month followed by the Quarry Jazz Festival in Woodstock, NY on August 3rd.
Deacon Blues is available at Amazon.com
WASTING TIME ON LINE DEPARTMENT:
takeitfromthehead.com: over 1300 Musicians who shave their
heads
All that talent & beauty in one place . amazing! (And they all look like me. How 'bout that!)
Making MySpace Friends - just a note;
It's great making new friends here on MySpace and catching up with many old friends. Making the world smaller is what the Internet does best. But I'm not here to just "collect" friends. So here's the deal:
I'm going to deny your add request if I don't know you and .
your profile is blocked, or
you show only a screen name and hide your real name, or
there's profanity on your page (posted by you or your Myspace 'friends'), or
your page glorifies drugs, drinking, scantily clad babes, etc.
I'm not being judgmental about your page, but I need to be comfortable with it to post a comment there. If you need any of that qualified, we're not going to be friends anyway, so save your energy. I'm just telling you.
Pete
Woodstock, NY January '08
SHOTS FROM THE ROAD
With Joe Louis Walker @ Maximum Blues Festival
Carleton Sur Mer, Quebec August, '09
With Rondi Charleston @ Catalina - Los Angeles, CA May '09
Pete, Rondi, Jay Leonhart, Joel Frahm, Alvester Garnett, Dave Stryker
Kal David & The Real Deal
Rochester Ribs & Blues Festival 7/10/08
Alexis P. Suter @ Bearsville Theater - Woodstock, NY March '08
Photo: Lisa Burklund
Pete Levin Quartet
Pete, Joe Beck, Harvey Sorgen, Ernie Colon
Knitting Factory, NYC
Photo: Andrew Lepley
. same gig, but you can watch us move and sweat.
Tony Levin Band - with special guest Tod Rundgren
Pete, Jesse Gress, Tod, Tony, Larry Fast, Jerry Marotta
NAMM Show, Anaheim, CA January 2007
Tony Levin Band - vocalizing
Pete, Jerry Marotta, Tony
Someplace in Europe .
BIO
Multi-keyboardist, composer/arranger PETE LEVIN has been on the New York music scene since the 70's, recording and touring internationally with hundreds of artists. He has just completed his 8th solo CD, DEACON BLUES, a mainstream jazz, organ trio project. Pete currently tours with his own group and with The Tony Levin Band, promoting Tony's latest CD release, RESONATOR. He lives in Woodstock, NY.
Since the 70s, keyboardist/composer, Pete has been part of New York's jazz, pop, and electronic music scene. He grew up with classical music, majoring in French horn at Boston University and later at Juilliard in New York, where he also began playing Hammond Organ with New York jazz and pop groups while doing recording work on French Horn. In 1974 he got a call to play horn with legendary jazz arranger Gil Evans, and Gil made him a regular. A year later Pete brought a Moog synthesizer to an Evans gig. Gil loved it and Pete's role was permanently changed. initiating the band's long transformation to the electronic/accoustic hybrid sound that won 2 Grammys. Among the first to explore synthesizers during the 70s, Pete became a sought-after sideman for recording and live performances. As a writer and musician he worked on film scores, jazz and pop records, and hundreds of TV and radio commercials. As production techniques changed during the 80s, Pete became a "programmer", orchestrating with electronic instruments under computerized MIDI control. In this new millenium - while he continues to use computer technology and a mixture of new and vintage synthesizers - he has largely returned to his keyboard roots, perfoming mainly on piano and organ.
Over the years, interspersed with Gil Evans, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox and Jimmy Giuffre Four tours, Pete has done arranging and electronic music for feature films including MISSING IN ACTION, LEAN ON ME, SILVER BULLET, THE COLOR OF MONEY and STAR TREK. He composed orchestral scores for the independent film, ZELIMO and a theatrical production of THE DYBBUK, created the electronic music score for Linda Rodgers' award-winning "Surgical Audiotape" series, created the official band/chorus arrangement of the U.S. Infantry song and composed the anthem for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit, performing it in the U.N. General Assembly. His favorite collaboration was with his brother, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Steve Gadd - "THE CLAMS", a Spike Jones tribute band - that produced a top-40 hit single "CLOSE TO YOU", now a cult classic. In 1989 Pete released his first solo jazz album, "Party In The Basement", for Gramavision Records. This was followed by "Solitary Man", two unique jazz Christmas CDs, The New Age of Christmas for Atlantic and Masters In This Hall for Gramavixion, both done with drummer Danny Gottlieb. Through the 90s, Pete recorded a series of electronic albums for Alternate Mode Records.