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.
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."
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.
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
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
Rondi Charleston Catalina Los Angeles, CA 05/20
Rondi Charleston Scullers Boston, MA 05/09
Michael Veitch
Tinker Street Theater
Woodstock, NY 4/09
Cleanhead photo-op
backstage at 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
Pete Levin Trio
Keegan Ales, Kingston, NY
03/01/09
Photos: Samantha Levin
Harvey Sorgen, Pete, John Cariddi
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
Cleanhead
photo-op:
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
Updated
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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I appreciate that. Thanks for looking in.
Reality can be stranger than
anything! Thursday night I did an outdoor gig with Warwick, NY
jazz guitarist, Michael Jackson. During the 1st set the balmy
weather turned nasty with ominous lightning and thunder. We
hustled our gear into our cars just in time to avoid a torrential
downpour. I drove home, turned on the 11 o'clock news ... which as
you know was all about the other Michael Jackson. Strange!
{cue Twilight Zone Theme}
Coming up, a bunch of gigs with Blues legend Joe Louis Walker, starting
with a 9 day swing around Canada, and then scattered dates in the
Northeast. Joe is the real deal; I'm really looking forward to this.
Check my calendar below. If you're a Blues fan and you're near any
of these gigs, it's well worth catching him live.
*
Great
new review
in Jazziz Magazine.
(A year after
the release; go figure!)
The Pat Bianco Band at The Endless Vine in Franklin
Lakes, NJ Don Gardner wasn't able to make
this one,
but we were engroovilated by my Woodstock bud, Peter
O'Brien.
Notice the 3 Cleanheads. Now if we could just get
John to shave ... Pete, Pat Bianco, Peter O'Brien, John
Cariddi
Woodstock knows how to
party!
A couple of notable recent birthday
bashes ...
Charlie Kniceley's 60th
Pete, Harvey Sorgen, Charlie, Jimmy Eppard, Nat Russell,
Chris Bowman
Paul Grimsland's 50th
Pete, Paul, Tony Levin
Marc Black Band
New video from the December '08 Italy tour
- 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. To be announced.
Our thanks to Nino Antonacci and all the folks at the Moody
Jazz Cafe.
Rondi Charleston Tour
with Joel Frahm - sax, Dave
Stryker - guitar, Pete Levin - piano,
Jay Leonhart - bass, Alvester Garnett - drums
www.rondicharleston.com
The
Rondi Charleston tour (photos scattered around the page). On the left, waiting at the airport -
someplace:
Joel, Suzi, Laura, Rondi, Alvester, Pete and Jay in front. Dave
took the photo; look at the window carefully.
6/01 Finished up the tour with
2 sold out shows at Dizzy's Coca Cola in New York City, part of the Jazz
At Lincoln Center group. Easily one of the best Jazz clubs in New
York, the view from the windows is breathtaking, especially after dark.
5/24 We played at a
wonderful jazz club last night in Denver - "Dazzle" Today, as they song
says, "the thrill is gone." Tough check-in and long lines at the
Denver airport security; the whole band missed the flight.
We're rescheduled, but it's likely we're not going to make our sound
check; and of course, we have to hope our instruments and luggage make
it to Minneapolis. So we're just hanging 'round the airport
waiting. And you thought The Road was glamorous!
2pm Still at
the Denver airport where there is now a tornado warning. They
told everybody to move away from the windows. (They didn't have to
ask twice!) Slim chance of making the first set in Minneapolis; we're hoping
for the 2nd.
(9:00pm ... we made it!)
5/20/09 On the road - it's all about the
contrasts: Yesterday, 6-1/2 hours jammed into an airplane middle
seat between a woman with a squalling infant and a fat guy who hadn't
bathed in a week. Today, sitting on a veranda with a sweet
California breeze coming at me. From here, I see our guitarist
Dave Stryker sitting by the pool. (Hope he's using sunblock!) Soundcheck and gig at
Catalina's
tonight, then on to San Diego tomorrow.
Hotels ... You can't win 'em
all!
San
Diego: View from my room.
Wow!
Denver:
view from my room. Yuk!
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.
Dazzle -
Denver, CO 05/23
Catalina - Los
Angeles, CA
05/20 photos: Laura Joy
Scullers - Boston, MA
05/05/09
Jay Leonhart, Pete, Rondi (hidden: Alverster
Garnett, Joel Frahm, Dave Stryker)
Rondi, Jay
Leonhart, Joel Frahm
Rondi & Dave
Stryker
JOE BECK SCHOLARSHIP FUND CONCERT
ALI RYERSON QUARTET w. PETE LEVIN, LINC MILLIMAN & THIERRY ARPINO and special guest SARAH BROOKS
Sunday, March 22nd 4pm
1st
Congregational Church 214 Main St. S.,
Woodbury, CT
Pete, Ali Ryerson,
Thierry Arpino, Sarah Brooks, Linc
Milliman
Recording Beki Brindle project
at Nevessa Studio, Woodstock 3/11/09
Pete, Beki, Chris Anderson
(engineer), Gary Burke (drums), Mike Esposito (bass)
La Trio formidabile!! (I know, it's a stupid,
huge, ego-photo. But I love this
photo!! Get your own website!)
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.
Pete
Harvey Sorgen
John Cariddi
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.
.
New video from the December '08 Italy tour
- 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. To be announced.
The
They
told everybody to move away from the windows. (They didn't have to
ask twice!) Slim chance of making the first set in Minneapolis; we're hoping
for the 2nd.
