Adam Levy
Web Site
July 2001
Buttermilk Channel
Lost Wax Music
2001
Reviewed by
Joel Roberts
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Adam Levy
Assimilating vocabulary from late-'60s jazz, Memphis-style blues, and other American dialects, Adam Levy has developed his own unique phraseology on the guitar-as can be heard on recordings by Joey Baron, Tracy Chapman, David Krakauer, and Sex Mob, as well as Levy's own discs. Guitar Player magazine describes Levy's dynamic, lyrical playing just right: "completely wank free."
The adventurous guitarist/composer has enjoyed "dual citizenship" status for the past six years, making a name for himself in two very different music scenes. In San Francisco, he's known as a versatile team-player who has worked as a sideman with notable artists of varied stripes, including acoustic swinger Dan Hicks, the Django Reinhardt-inspired Hot Club of San Francisco, and cabaret art-rockers The Billy Nayer Show. In New York, where he lives currently, he's a respected avant-jazz improviser who has recorded and/or performed with many of that scene's top players-Joey Baron, John Zorn, Sex Mob, and David Krakauer.
Levy's latest recording is Buttermilk Channel. His original jazz-flavored tunes are featured on the disc, and he is backed by organist Larry Goldings (John Scofield, Jim Hall, Carla Bley) and drummer Kenny Wollesen (Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Sex Mob).
Selected Discography
- Adam Levy - Buttermilk Channel [Lost Wax, 2001]
- Adam Levy & George Wyle - With My Guitar and You [Lost Wax, 2001]
- Sex Mob - Din of Inequity [Knitting Factory/Columbia, 1998]
- Joey Baron - Killer Joey [no label, 2000]
- David Krakauer - A New Hot One [Label Bleu, 2000]
- Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant - debutantes & centipedes [Buzz, 1999]
- Trio Putanesca - Live at Yoshi's [Evander, 1998]
- Dred Scott Trio - Standards 2000 [Robertson, 1998]
- Tracy Chapman - New Beginning [Elektra, 1995]
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