Results for "Rob Levit"

Rob Levit

Guitarist, composer and educator Rob Levit has been described by the Ottawa International Jazz Festival as "...one of the finest young guitarists on today's jazz scene." He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2000 Chamber Music America New Works: Creation and Presentation (Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project) Award, the Jazz Composers Alliance/Julius Hemphill Prize, and four consecutive Maryland State Arts Council Individual Arts Awards. Inspired by great composers as diverse as Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers and Pat Metheny, Levit's music integrates world, rock, jazz and classical sources with improvisation to create an exciting fusion of sounds

The Traveler

June 29, 2007

Album: Touch the Spirit
By Rob Levit
Label: Symbol System Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 2:15

Singularity

June 28, 2007

Album: Uncertain Path
By Rob Levit
Label: Symbol System Records
Released: 2004
Duration: 3:23

Touch the Spirit

By Rob Levit

Label: Symbol System Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Touch the Spirit; Sunken Cathedral; Radiance; The Traveler; The Gift of Lilies; Disjunction Blues; The Atonement; The Journey West; The Stranger; Country-blue; Through the Gap; Drum Wisdom; My Empress shall not Weep; The Borderland; The Bridge; Song for Christopher; Homecoming; A Flash of Joy; Naked Blues; Forgotten Song; The Ancient; Child-like; Branches; The Last Step

Rob Levit: Touch the Spirit

by Budd Kopman
June 1, 2006

Rob Levit is an amazing guitarist and a deep, feeling musician. Uncertain Path (Symbol System, 2004) revealed his electric side alongside a band, and now Touch the Spirit explores his solo relationship with the acoustic guitar, both steel and nylon, with a bit of electric thrown in. Levit is also a bit of a Renaissance man--he ...

Uncertain Path

By Rob Levit

Label: Symbol System Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Singularity - 3:20 (Rob Levit) 2. Fields of Gold - 4:32 (Sting) 3. Uncertain Path - 5:44 (Rob Levit) 4. After You (For Elaine) - 6:22 (Rob Levit)5. M-Dive - 3:57 (Rob Levit) 6. Safe Returns (In Memoriam 9/11) - 4:48 (Rob Levit) 7. Sophia/Solace - 8:09 (Rob Levit) 8. Daily Grind Blues - 4:13 (Rob Levit)9. Ballad #3 - 5:10 (Rob Levit) 10. The Undoing (for Jaya) - 3:21 (Rob Levit) 11. Moving Closer - 4:41 (Rob Levit) 12. Waiting in Vain - 3:58 (Bob Marley) 13. Footprints - 6:00 (Rob Levit)

The Rob Levit Trio: Uncertain Path

by Craig W. Hurst
December 9, 2004

Rob Levit is a talented Annapolis, Maryland based guitarist and composer. His trio recording Uncertain Path is a collection of ten original compositions and three arrangements of tunes by Sting, Bob Marley and Wayne Shorter. Levit's compositions represent a varied cross section of styles and creative inventiveness that keeps the listener's ear hooked. The opening tune, ...

Rob Levit: Uncertain Path & Anatomy of Ecstasy

by David Rickert
October 29, 2004

Rob Levit Uncertain Path Symbol System Records 2004 Many musicians who explore a wide variety of musical styles are unable to combine them into a coherent whole. Not Rob Levit though, a guitarist who is able to seamlessly blend all sorts of influences from blues to funk to ...

Rob Levit Trio: Uncertain Path

by Elliott Simon
August 23, 2004

If “guitar" was a musical style, Rob Levit would be at the top of it. On the one hand, he is a jazz guitarist who can take a basic melody and turn it outside in to explore its inner beauty or reveal its seamy underbelly. Then again, he can rip off some of the fastest licks ...