High-energy organ trio set, featuring
guitarists Joe Beck, John Cariddi, Jesse Gress & Mike
DeMicco. Not your father's organ trio!
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Deacon Blues
Pete's
2007 organ trio debut for Motéma
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Meditations
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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Party 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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A Solitary Man
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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John Cariddi
Joe Beck
Mike DeMicco
Jesse Gress
Erik Lawrence
Harvey Sorgen
Ernie Colon
Ken Lovelett
Harvey Sorgen & Roman Klun
at Jersville Studio
Cynthia Daniels & Pete
Pete, mixing at Petesville
Studio
"Aside from my family, playing creative music
is my only reason for being on this earth."
~ Arnie Lawrence
Updated
Monday, February 08, 2010
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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, Harvey Sorgen,
Rennie Cantine
The Retro Rockets
Motorcycle Expo Albany, NY 02/15/09
JImmy Eppard rocks the joint!
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
Coming up ....
Thursday, February 11th - The
Palace Theatre, in partnership with the City of
Albany and Albany Medical Center will be hosting
Hearts 4 Haiti. David Malachowski and The Woodstock
All-stars are headlining with Marshall Crenshaw and
Stacy Wilde joining us. Other special guests include
Jill Hughes, Sirsy, Slick Fitty, and The Audiostars.
Tickets are $15, with
all proceeds going to Hearts 4 Haiti Partners in
Health. Part of the proceeds from merch sales
also go to Hearts 4 Haiti.
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!!!
More photos coming.
Meanwhile, I grabbed lots of audience shots.
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, Daniel Weiss
01/24/10 Jimmy Eppard
& The Retro Rockets at Keegan Ales - Kingston, NY.
Sometimes, jammin' at the local pub is the most fun.
Jimmy Eppard, Jerry Marotta,
Charlie Kniceley, Pete Levin
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
Nicole Hart
Lisa Gutkin & Nicole
A Cleanhead photo-op!! Mark Sganga, Don
Gardner, Pete
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.
"What is this
about?" you're asking. (You are asking, aren't
you?)
Click on the photo.
11/01/09 Jimmy Young - might be the most recorded
studio drummer in New York - hits 70 and still groovin!
Jammin' at his birthday bash at Toro's in New Jersey.
Dave Yee and Jimmie Young
John Cariddi
Jimmie
Allen Won
John Cariddi, Jimmie & Pete
10/17/09 Uncle Funk and Mrs.
Uncle Funk ...Tina and Joe get hitched!
Tina & Joe
A
Woodstock-style jam ...
Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, Bruce Wolfiel, Vito Petroccitto,
Joe Beesmer & Pete.
At other times, Paul Casciaro, Jesse Gress, Flash, Randy
Ciarlante & lots of folks singing Mustang Sally in the wrong
key
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
Jack DeJohnette opens the festival with a
chime and a poem.
Gary Kvistad (in the purple T) introduces the
Jack DeJohnette trio and lots of drummers!
Jerry
The amazing Liam Teague sitting in with us
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 1/2 a million dollars in the lottery?
An interviewer asked him what his plans were. He said he'd just keep on gigging until the money was gone.
January
2010
Fri 1
Sugarloaf at Kingfield, ME at
The Rack w. Mark Sganga Band
Wed 20
Franklin Lakes, NJ at
Endless Vine
with Pat Bianco Band
12:00pm Albany, NY at the Washington Avenue
Armory w. Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets
Sun 24
7:00pm Kingston, NY at
Keegan Ales
w. Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets
Wed 27
New York, NY at The Iridium w.
The Woodstock All-stars - David Malachowski, Machan Taylor,
Dennis Gruenling, Graham Maby, Gary Burke, Dan Weiss, Pete Levin
February
Fri 5
Tappan, NY at the 76 House w. Mark
Sganga
Sat 6
Kingston, NY at
Keegan Ales
w. Jimmy Eppard & The Retro Rockets - Jerry Marotta's Birthday
Bash!!
Thu 11
Albany, NY at the Palace Theater w.
Woodstock All-Stars. Fund-raiser for Haiti
Fri 12
Albany, NY at Justin's w. Dan Faulk
Sat 13
7:00pm Rosendale, NY with Uncle
Funk. Fundraiser for the Rosendale Street Festival
Sat 13
9:30pm Kingston, NY at the Holiday Inn w.
Harvey Citron Band
Wed 17
Franklin Lakes, NJ at
Endless Vine
with Pat Bianco Band
Fri 19
Hackensack, NJ
with Pat Bianco Band
Sat 20
Albany, NY at Justin's w. Pete
Sweeney/Mark Dzuiba Trio
Sun 21
Scranton, PA at the Ice Box Arena with Commander Cody, Jimmy Eppard
& The Retro Rockets
.
Thursday, February 11th - The
Palace Theatre, in partnership with the City of
Albany and Albany Medical Center will be hosting
Hearts 4 Haiti. David Malachowski and The Woodstock
All-stars are headlining with Marshall Crenshaw and
Stacy Wilde joining us. Other special guests include
Jill Hughes, Sirsy, Slick Fitty, and The Audiostars.
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
