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Howard Levy is a musician without limits. His musical adventures include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, world music, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, theater, and film. He has appeared on hundred of cd’s, won a Grammy (1997), won a Joseph Jefferson Award (1986) for Best Original Music for a Play, and has performed many times on American and European television and radio.
Universally acknowledged as the world’s most advanced diatonic harmonica player, Howard developed a fully chromatic style on the standard 10 - hole diatonic harmonica, revolutionizing harmonica playing and taking the instrument into totally new territory. He is also an accomplished pianist and composer, and plays many other instruments as well, including flute, ocarina, mandolin, saxophone, and percussion.
Howard was a founding member of the Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. He toured and recorded two albums with Kenny Loggins, and formed Trio Globo with Eugene Friesen and Glen Velez . Howard has also performed and/or recorded with Dolly Parton, Styx, Bobby McFerrin, Paul Simon, John Prine, Paquito D’Rivera, Ken Nordine, and many others, as well as touring and recording extensively in Europe with artists such as Rabih Abou Khalil and Michael Riessler. Recent Highlights
In 2003, Howard released a jazz duo cd with Naumberg Award-winning pianist Anthony Molinaro, entitled The Molinaro/Levy Project “Live”
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New Double CD From David Herzhaft: "Jazzin' Around" Featuring Howard...
NYC Bassist Matt Geraghty Releases 3rd CD "Passport" w/Grammy Winners...
...Howard Levy is a revelation; there are times when it is hard to believe he is playing only a harmonica, for he has the expressive range and depth of a saxophonist. —Geoff Dyer, The London Observer, March 1994
...may be the most radical single technical innovator in the history of his instrument... —Kim Field, Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers, Simon & Schuster 1993
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Feb23Sun |
Howard LevyEvanston SpaceEvanston, IL |
Mar29Sun |
the Flecktones, Victor Wooten, Béla Fleck, Howard...Berks Jazz FestReading, PA |
May30Sat |
Bela Fleck And The FlecktonesHarrison Opera HouseNorfolk, VA |
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