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The Hank Levy Alumni Band

The Hank Levy Alumni Band: An 'Odd-Time' Was Had by All

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2005

As a rule, a big-band album's song titles are followed by the name(s) of composer and arranger, playing time, and perhaps the names of the various soloists, if there are any. It's rare that one sees time signatures as well, but the late Hank Levy wasn't your garden variety, four-beats-to-the-measure writer. To Levy, who wrote for ...

Hank at Home

By The Hank Levy Alumni Band

Label: Sonority Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Green Dolphin Street; Just Friends; A Time for Love; Someday My Prince Will Come; My Favorite Things; Over the Rainbow; Mucho Gusto, Los Mendanos; Little Girl Blue; With the Old Man in Mind; Latintensity (54:55).

The Hank Levy Alumni Band: Hank at Home

by Jack Bowers
April 12, 2002

Disproving the poet T.S. Eliot’s sardonic observation, composer / arranger / educator Hank Levy’s life ended not with a whimper but a bang, thanks to a group of his former students who decided to hand their mentor the reins for one last exhilarating buggy ride. The album’s title means exactly what it says — Hank at ...