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Howard Levy and Friends in Concert at Temple Chai
The Temple Chai Baruch Family Concert Series Presents
Bending Towards the Light
Starring Multi Grammy Award Winner Howard Levy and Friends!
Featuring Guitarist Chris Siebold, Bassist Joshua Ramos, Drummer Nadav Simon, Pianist Gregory Shifrin and your host Cantor Scott Simon.
Multiple Grammy Award Winner and Chicago Jazz Icon, Howard Levy is an acknowledged master of the diatonic harmonica, a superb pianist, innovative composer, recording artist, bandleader, teacher and producer. His musical travels have taken him all over the geographical world and the musical map. Equally at home in Jazz, Classical, Rock, Folk, Latin, Jewish and World Music styles, he brings a fresh lyrical approach to whatever he plays. He is loved by audiences worldwide, and a recording artist sought after by the likes of Kenny Loggins, Dolly Parton, Paquito DRivera, Styx, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon. As a sideman, Howard has appeared on hundreds of CDs and played on many movie soundtracks.
He is perhaps best known for the four CDs he recorded with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, a unique band that set the musical world on its ear back in the early 1990s. The Band reformed 2010 and recorded the CD Rocket Science. They toured extensively in 2011-2012, and Howard won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for Life in Eleven, which he wrote with Bela Fleck.
Howard's other prominent collaborations include three CDs with Trio Globo (Glen Velez and Eugene Friesen), two with Lebanese Oud player/composer Rabih Abou Khalil, and one with the avaunt- garde Jazz Riessler/Levy/Matinier Trio. His wonderful, just released collaboration, Art and Adrenaline with touring partner, guitarist Chris Siebold is already garnering top reviews and features new songs and forays in Jazz, Blues, Brazilian, Classical and World Music.
Howard is music director and chief composer for the Latin/Jazz group Chévere de Chicago. He produced and released the band's CD Secret Dream, as well as Time Capsules with his acoustic swing group Acoustic Express, on his own label, Balkan Samba Records. His solo Jazz CD, Alone and Together on Balkan Samba, and his Jazz trio CD Tonight and Tomorrow on the Chicago Sessions label, both received 4-star reviews in DownBeat magazine. www.levyland.com and on his YouTube Channel.
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LocationTemple Chai (View)
1670 RFD (Checker Road, 1 Block West of Arlington Heights Rd.)
Long Grove, IL 60047
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 9 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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