Daniel Levin Quartet

Daniel Levin Quartet: Don't Go It Alone

by John Kelman
February 10, 2004

The cello may not be the first instrument you think of when it comes to improvised music, but with artists like Erik Friedlander, Vincent Courtois, and now Daniel Levin putting together daring ensembles that forge new places for their instrument, it is certainly gaining in stature. Don't Go It Alone is Levin's first recording, and is a fine example of chamber jazz, with an unusual instrumental line-up that allows for a multitude of musical spaces, from open-ended free jazz to ...

Daniel Levin Quartet: Blurry on Hatology 653

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2007

Daniel Levin -cello Nate Wooley -trumpet Matt Moran -vibraphone Joe Morris -double bass

For anyone hearing the Daniel Levin Quartet for the first time, there's apt to be a dual response, a sense of something at once familiar and very different, a sounding which chamber music sonorities promise an unexpected emotional possibility, an invocation of something lost that is also an intimation of what is to come.

The cumulative effect of the quartet's music ...
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Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees on hatOLOGY 632

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees, hatOLOGY 632

Nate Wooley - trumpet Matt Moran - vibes Daniel Levin - cello Joe Morris - double bass

Performing “Out To Lunch" by Eric Dolphy, “Wickets" by Steve Lacy, “Morning Song" by Ornette Coleman and compositions by Daniel Levin.

“It's obvious this is not an ordinary jazz quartet. Paul Bley once suggested to me that “one of the ways to get out of a particular ...
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