Pete Levin
organ trio - Pete, John Cariddi & Harvey
Sorgen - do a smokin' live set at the Moody
Jazz Cafe in Foggia, Italy December
2008
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High-energy organ trio set, featuring
guitarists Joe Beck, John Cariddi, Jesse
Gress & Mike DeMicco. Not your
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Pete's
2007 organ trio debut for Motéma
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Pete & Jazz flautist
Ali Ryerson collaborate on this adventure in textures.
Ali, playing only alto flute on this outing, does
sensual improvisations against a backdrop of Pete's lush
electronic orchestrations.
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In The Basement
Pete's first solo
album for Gramavision (1989) was a tribute to Gil Evans,
with whom Pete worked for 15 years. Much of the album is
performed by an 8-piece all-star band - all alumni of
the Gil Evans "Monday Night Orchestra."
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Pete's 2nd solo album
for Gramavision (1990) used a Weather Report-styled
quintet that featured Mingus saxophonist Alex
Foster and bassist Jeff Berlin.
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Woodstock, NY, River Edge, NJ
& Santa Monica, CA. 2010
Dave Stryker
@ Knoop Studio
Lenny White
@ Knoop Studio
Pete & Dave
@ Knoop Studio
Manolo Badrena
@ Knoop Studio
Roman Klun
@ Knoop Studio
Pete & Alan Meyerson
@ Remote Control Productions
Roman & Lenny
Manolo
Roman & Manfred Knoop
Lenny
Pete, mixing
@ Petesville Studio
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Pete, Adam Nussbaum,
Jay Anderson
New Paltz, NY 8/09
Joe Louis Walker
Maximum Blues
Festival
Carleton Sur Mer, QC 8/8
Towne Crier
Pawling, NY 7/25
Rockland, Maine
7/12
New Brunswick,
Canada 7/9
Marc Black Band
Woodstock, NY 6/27
Pat Bianco Band Endless Vine
Franklin Lakes, NJ 6/17
3 Cleanheads
in the band!! Pat Bianco, Pete, Peter O'Brien
Rondi Charleston Dizzy's CocaCola New York, NY 06/01
Rondi Charleston Dizzy's San
Diego, CA 05/22
Michael Veitch
Tinker Street Theater
Woodstock, NY 4/09
Endless Vine
Franklin Lakes, NJ 3/09
Don Gardner,
Pat Bianco, Pete photo: Pahaka September
Rennie Canine project Nevessa Studio Woodstock, NY 3/08/09
Pete, Chris Anderson, Flash
Johnson, Harvey Sorgen, Rennie Cantine
STRADELLA 12/5
Photo:
Laura Passera
Photo:
Laura Passera
Pete & Laura Passera
FOGGIA 12/8 Moody
Jazz Cafe
Pete & Moody Jazz Cafe owner Nino
Antonacci
GIOLA DEL COLLE 12/7
Ueffilo Cantina a Sud
BOLOGNA 12/6
LECCO 12/3
Ristorante
Perla Nera - John, Harvey & Pete
with owners Carmine and Emmanuel.
Great! We ate there 4 times in 3
days!
COSIO/VALTELLINA
11/29
A
beautiful theater in this ski resort
town in northern Italy
Photo:
Roger Salem
KAL DAVID
& THE REAL DEAL, FEATURING LAURI BONO
Dekalb Blues
Festival Atlanta, GA July 20 '08
Black Eyed Sally's
Hartford, CT July 11 '08
NEW
CD RELEASE - SEPTEMBER 25th
An organ trio with guitarist Dave Stryker and
drummer Lenny White, along with percussionist Manolo
Badrena. It not available yet but live promoters have asked to see what it's
about. So here's a taste.
Busy month!
Saturday 9/4
7:30pm Jack & Luna's in Stone Ridge, NY with
Neil Leonard quartet - me, Charlie Kniceley (bass)
and Chris Bowman (drums). The club has beer &
wine, dinner specials, killin' soups and salads, coffee
and deserts. And ... a brand new grand piano that
I'll get to play!
Sunday 9/5 - a
casual outdoor gig with Nicole Hart at Woodbury
Common in Central Valley, NY. 1pm to 5pm or
so. It's just an outdoor hang - no cover.
Saturday 9/11 9pm
at the Rosendale Cafe in Rosendale, NY with the Ali
Ryerson Quartet. Ali's a fantastic flutist
that I've played and recorded with for many years.
I'll be working on a new CD with her this fall.
Wednesday 9/15
8:30pm I'm back at the Endless Vine in Franklin
Lakes, NJ. John Cariddi, Rich Crane and I with
our special guest Nicole Hart. No cover.
Amazing wine list!
Thursday 9/23 9pm
at Justin's in Albany, NY with the
Keith Pray organ trio. Nice jazz room,
great food.
Saturday 9/25
I'll be at the
Long BeachJazz festival, Long Island, NY playing
the opening show at noon with an organ trio.
With me will be Dave Stryker (guitar) and Ben
Perowsky (drums)
Sunday 9/26
8pm at the Harmony in Woodstock, NY - the
Afro/Latin Jazz group
Zumbi Zumbi with Jeff "Seige" Siegel
(drums) and I are guesting. No cover at the
Harmony but they do pass a tip jar.
Pete Levin Trio -
live at Moody Jazz Cafe Foggia, Italy 12/08
Retrieved, mastered and available at last, the audio
recording from our 2008 gig at the Moody Jazz Cafe in
Foggia, Italy. What with the party vibe at Moody
Jazz, the Trio was smokin' that night! (The
free-flowing grappa didn't hurt.) Along with me,
John Cariddi on guitar and Harvey Sorgen on drums.
I
have great video from the gig, but sync problems have
prevented getting a DVD release together. (Example
below via Youtube.) The video's audio comes from a
single camera's mic, while this new audio album is a
remix from a multitrack recording made that night.
Way better!
AftershowMusic.com
has just made the album available for download.
Please check it out. Click on their logo
8/27/10
David Malachowski & the Woodstock All-Stars.
Athens Town Park - Athens, NY. The usual suspects,
but we were joined by the amazing Lorenza Ponce
Pete, Graham Maby, Lorenza Ponce, Gary
Burke, Erik Lawrence, David Malachowski, Machan Taylor,
Dennis Gruenling
8/21/10
Uncle Funk at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock.
Joe Beesmer, Jesse Gress, Pete Levin, Tony
Levin & Jerry Marotta. There was a big
fireworks display that evening so we got off
to a late start, but we did rock da joint!
Jesse Gress, Jerry Marotta,
Joe Beesmer, Tony Levin, Pete
photos: Janet Morra
From my
hockey uniform collection, that's my
"Skating Elvises" shirt.
Stupid tourist
photos I took last night. I'd like to
say that they shoot off fireworks for every
Uncle Funk gig, but it was probably
celebrating something else.
8/7
SONO Arts Festival - a terrific annual
street fair in South Norwalk, CT with music
and art and food everywhere. Several
concert stages going at once at various
locations. I played 2 shows with 2
different bands, starting with Penamach,
Charlie Kniceley's newly formed Jazz
quartet, and later on the main stage with
Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets.
PENEMACH:
Mark Dzuiba, Nadav Snir Zelniker, Pete,
Charlie Kniceley
THE RETRO
ROCKETS: "Tall Paul" Verdon, Jimmy Eppard,
Charlie Kniceley, Pete
8/5
Remembering Don Gardner. I guess you
could call it a 'memorial jam' I
lost count of how many musicians actually
performed during the evening, but it was a
lot. Hundreds of folks turned out for
the music and the great food and to support
the Don Gardner Scholarship Fund. I
was scheduled to play one tune with Mark
Sganga, who had re-assembled a band that
played a New Year's Eve gig in Maine - one
of the last gigs I did with Don - but ended
up sitting in with 5 or 6 bands.
Mark
Sganga, Nicole Hart & the "New Year's Eve
Band"
One of the
jam bands: Craig Yaremko, Allan Won, John
Cariddi, Pete
7/13 Pete
and Alan Meyerson at Studio M at Remote Control
Productions - Santa Monica, CA
7/9/10 Beki
Brindle's Hoosier Mamas rock the house at the Harmony
Cafe in Woodstock, NY. Photos by
Erik Lamont
Pete, Charlie Kniceley, Beki Brindle,
Jerry Marotta, Victoria Levy
6/29/10
Doing some playing on a new album for Italian singer
Letizia Gambi, being produced by Lenny White. It's
mostly Neopolitan songs done with contemporary American
Jazz or R&B grooves. Pretty serious cast of
heavyweight sidemen on it too. (I don't want to
say too much more about it yet.)
Pete, Letizia &
Lenny at Manfred Knoop studios in New Jersey.
6/27/10
Kingston, NY celebrates July 4th the previous weekend,
with a big party at the Rondout with live music and a
great fireworks display. This year, Uncle Funk
headlined on the main stage. (Not the greatest of
honors actually; when they were ready to start the
fireworks, we got the hook!)
Pete, Jesse Gress, Randy Ciarlante,
Joe Beesmer, Paul Casciaro
6/19
Justin's - Albany, NY with the Mike DeMicco organ trio.
Mike (guitar), Pete (organ) & Jeff Siegel (drums)
6/6
Croton-On-Hudson Street Festival with Nicole Hart and
the NRG Band
5/26
I spent a day at producer Steven Ross's studio
tracking keyboards for singer/songwriter
Erin Hobson's new album. Erin's a
wonderful vocalist, and she writes beautiful songs.
Look for some of her live gigs in the Hudson Valley
region.
5/30
Recording tracks for Chris Mitchell's album at Sonart
Studio - Mt. Tremper, NY:
Pete,
Chris Mitchell, Mike Visceglia, Jerry Marotta
5/12 - a
Cleanhead photo-op. Bleeker St. hand in front of
New York City's Bitter End after our set with Charles
Lyonhart, here's Kenny Gorka (who runs the club),
drummer Dennis Cotton and me. I actually missed an
opportunity here: my Facebook buddy Mike Guaragna had
just walked by and we chatted for a minute. If I'd
gotten it together faster, we could have included him.
I blew a 4-Cleanhead photo-op!! Rats!!
2/6 The
Retro Rockets at Keegan Ales in Kingston, NY. The
joint was packed, and we rocked the house. Making
it extra fun were John Sebastian and Fuzzbee Morse
sittin' in. It's a composite of tunes, and the
video isn't great; but the sound is good and Jimmy is
singin' his tush off!
Saturday, May 1st -
Kleinert-James Gallery, Woodstock, NY.:
Betty MacDonald's CD release concert for her duo
album with the late Joe Beck, "And Here's To You." Betty,
joined by vibist Mike Mainieri, bassist Ira Coleman, drummer
Dennis Mackrel, and me on piano. We did a few standards, a few
of Joe's compositions and one of Mike's. It was a
wonderful concert - great vibe, great music. And for me,
the rare treat of just walking into a gig and sitting down at a
Steinway. No shlepping!
Pete, Mike Mainieri, Ira Coleman, Betty
MacDonald, Dennis Mackrel
Betty
crashes a Cleanhead photo-op
with Stuart Breed, Pete & Ira
Saturday, April 17th:
Rebecca Coupe Franks Quintet, CD release party at Jack & Luna's
- Stone Ridge, NY
Chris Bowman, Mary Ann McSweeney, Rebecca
Coupte Franks, Pete
Sunday, April 11th:
Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets at the Pre-Daytona Motorcycle
Expo. Ice Time Sports Complex; Newburg, NY
Pete, Tall Paul Verdon, Jimmy Eppard,
Charlie Kniceley
The band, with promoter Gary Michaels
Wednesday, Feb 17th:
Photographer Pahaka September joins in a Cleanhead photo-op at
Endless Vine - Franklin Lakes, NJ
Mark Sganga, Pete, Pahaka, Pat Bianco, Don
Gardner
Saturday, Feb 13th: Uncle
Funk did a set at the Rosendale (NY) Rec Center as part of a
fundraiser for the Rosendale Street Festival. The usual
suspects - Joe Beesmer, Jesse Gress, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin &
yours truly. A great lineup of bands, and for a good
cause. Photos: Tina Rotella
Pete, Jerry Marotta,
Tony Levin, Joe Beesmer, Jesse Gress
02/11/10 David
Malachowski & The Woodstock All-Stars at the Palace Theater,
Albany, NY. Fundraiser concert, "Hearts For Haiti"
Photos: Lindsay Malachowski
L to R: Gary Burke, Dan Weiss, Pete,
Graham Maby, Machan Taylor,
David Malachowski, Stacy Wilde, Dennis Gruenling
02/06/10 Jimmy
Eppard & The Retro Rockets at Keegan Ales in Kingston,
NY - celebrating Jerry Marotta's 1st annual 54th
Birthday Bash. Great turnout - Keegan's was
packed. Lots of people sat in. The joint was
rockin!!!
Pete, Jimmy Eppard,
Jerry Marotta, Charlie Kniceley & Fuzzbee Morse
Photo: Stephen W. Ross
Photo: Stephen W. Ross
Photo: Stephen W. Ross
01/27/10
David Malachowski & the Woodstock All-Stars at the
Irridium - New York, NY
L to R: Pete, Graham
Maby, Erik Lawrence, Dennis Gruenling, Machan,
Gary Burke, David Malachowski, Dan Weiss
01/22/10
The Woodstock All-Stars in concert at "The Linda",
WAMC's beautiful performance space in Albany, NY.
Photos by Lindsay Malachowski & Paul Deming
Pete,
Graham Maby, Dennis Gruenling, Machan Taylor, Gary
Burke, David Malachowski, Daniel Weiss
Special guest Marshall Crenshaw
New Year's Eve this year -
way up north in Maine, in the Sugarloaf ski region.
Serious cold and lots of snow. I bought a new set of long
underwear for this trip. The gig was at
The
Rack, with
Mark Sganga
and a rockin' 8-piece band. Lots of Blues and R&B for a
partying crowd.
Oh
yeah, the Bruins hockey shirt ... 'fessin' up: I've been a
New Yorker since the 60's, but when you grow up in Boston, it's
hard to disconnect from those teams - the Celtics, the Red Sox.
(Ask Tony about the Patriots!) So here I was in New England
and Boston was playing Philadelphia in an outdoor rink at Fenway
Park - 40,000 fans instead of the usual 14,000! Wow!
The Bruins won in OT. I had to wear my shirt! Sorry.
Mark Sganga
Jon Hanser, Don
Gardner, Mark Sganga, Pete, Baron Raymonde, Larry
D'Albero
New York City and Woodstock, NY with,
White Flag Project - Israeli and Palestinian musicians working
together. Check out
their website. For the Woodstock gig, we were joined by
master tabla player,
Ray Spiegel. (Poster below)
WhiteFlag Project at the Kleinert
Gallery Woodstock, NY 12/13/09
L to R: Aaron Shneyer, Mark Smulian, Gani
Tamir, Katja Cooper, Zaher Jawad, Pete, Ray Spiegel
(Kevin Skolnick is hidden behind Gani)
WhiteFlag Project at NuBlu, NYC
12/12/09
Gani, Mark, Zaher,
Aaron, Katja, Kevin & Pete
Back from Europe, where I was doin' the organ trio thing with John
Cariddi and Harvey Sorgen. I've put up a tour gallery page.
A lot of the photos from the home page have been moved there, and more
added. More are still coming in. Overall, we had a great
time, met some terrific people, discovered some great new venues (new to
us, that is) and got home in reasonably good shape.
December, 2008: Pete Levin Trio at Moody Jazz Cafe,
Foggia, Italy - a very different version of a Cole
Porter classic. (Lots of organ bottom; use
headphones if you got 'em.) There's lots more from
the 2 hour set we did in Foggia - I'm in the
studio now working on a DVD release of the gig.
Saturday, September 19th - Kingston, NY: The first annual "Drum
Boogie Festival", put on by Woodstock Chimes. The whole
festival was great, featuring a 7-hour lineup of international
percussion ensembles and bands, including Jack DeJohnette's trio, Liam
Teague - a truly amazing steel drum player - and Nexus, Woodstock Chimes
CEO Gary Kvistad's own award-winning percussion ensemble.
Gary asked Jerry Marotta to headline the show; to do it, Jerry reunited
the Tony Levin Band, although unfortunately without Larry Fast. We
boogied! (Except, nobody told me we were wearing black for this
gig!)
Pete, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin,
Jesse Gress
Photo: Pete Sweeney
Photo: Tina Rotella
Joe Louis Walker Tour
Canada
8/8
Maximum Blues Festival.
Carleton Sur Mer, Quebec
7/17 2 hours north
of Montreal at the Mont
Tremblant Blues Festival.
Mont Tremblant is a picturesque
ski village that looks like a
set from "The Prisoner."
They get a huge turnout for this
great Blues festival every year.
Check out our crowd ...
7/12
North Atlantic Blues Festival.
Rockland, Maine.
Hanging
backstage:
Front - Pete, Linwood Taylor, Joe Louis
Walker
Back, Vinnie Leggiere & Richard Crane
Rondi
Charleston Tour
with Joel Frahm - sax,
Dave Stryker - guitar, Pete Levin - piano,
Jay Leonhart - bass, Alvester Garnett -
drums
www.rondicharleston.com
Dizzy's
CocaCola - New York, NY 06/01
photos: Laura Joy
Here we're joined by pianist
Lynne Arriale This has got to
be the most beautiful Jazz club in
New York! The 2nd show ... after
dark the New York skyline is
incredible.
La Trio formidabile!!
Europe, 2008
We ate;
we played; we ate more; we hung out
with lots of wonderful people. What's
not to love?
Check out the
photo gallery page up with great photos from
the tour. Click on any of these images.
BLUES
ON THE BAY
August 30 & 31st
Alexandria Bay, NY
A stone's throw from Canada
(if you've got a good arm) on the St. Lawrence River.
I played the "Blues On The Bay" festival with my favorite
blues singer/guitarist, Kal David. This little tourist
town turns into a virtual Mardi Gras every Labor Day
weekend, with this great 3-day Blues fest in the middle of
it. We headlined in the main tent on Saturday night,
and did a down-home Blues Bar gig on Sunday night.
Pete, Lauri Bono, Mike
Nappi, Kal
Good photos
of the Tony Levin Band on the road keep popping
up. Photographer Andrew Lepley caught this
show at the Knitting Factory in NYC
Photographer
Gary Bandfield caught the final bow at the end
of our set at the NAMM show this past January -
the Tony Levin Band and guest Todd Rundgren.
Pete, Jesse
Gress, Todd Rundgren, Tony Levin, Larry Fast,
Jerry Marotta
Pete
Live (This is the current
2 months or so. Click
here for the
whole deal.)
Did you hear the one about the jazz musician
who won $250,000 in the lottery?
An interviewer asked him what his plans were.
He said he'd just keep on gigging until the money was
gone.
August
Thu 5
Ringwood, NJ at Cupsaw Lake: Don
Gardner memorial concert
Sat 7
Norwalk, CT at the SONO Festival w.
Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets
Thu 12
Albany, NY at Justin's w. Keith Pray
Fri 13
Woodstock, NY at the Bearsville
Theater w. Rennie Cantine - Woodstock Guitar Festival
Sat 14
Bethel, CT: Private house party
performance with Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets
Sat 21
Woodstock, NY at The Colony w. Uncle
Funk - Woodstock Guitar Festival
Tue 24
Kingston, NY at Mariner's Harbor w.
Nancy Donnelly & Mike DeMicco. Fundraiser for
congressman
Maurice Hinchey
.
NEW
RELEASE: 
An organ trio with guitarist Dave Stryker and
drummer Lenny White, along with percussionist Manolo
Badrena. It not available yet but live promoters have asked to see what it's
about. So here's a taste.
Oh
yeah, the Bruins hockey shirt ... 'fessin' up: I've been a
New Yorker since the 60's, but when you grow up in Boston, it's
hard to disconnect from those teams - the Celtics, the Red Sox.
(Ask Tony about the Patriots!) So here I was in New England
and Boston was playing Philadelphia in an outdoor rink at Fenway
Park - 40,000 fans instead of the usual 14,000! Wow!
The Bruins won in OT. I had to wear my shirt! Sorry.
BLUES
ON THE BAY
