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Dan Levinson and his Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra: Steppin' Around
by Michael Steinman
In a jam session or reading an arrangement, the gifted reedman Dan Levinson summons up noble ghosts--Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Frank Trumbauer and Rosy McHargue. But he is his own man with his own ideas. In spirit, he resembles Dick Hyman, creating historically accurate but radically lively music. Although Levinson is called traditional" by those who ...
Dan Levinson and His Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra: Crinoline Days
by Elliott Simon
In 1917, as Russians revolted against the Tsar and the US entered into World War I, the first jazz records, recorded right here in NYC, turned so-called legitimate music on its ear. People danced to the new music and the national craze that would come to be known as the Jazz Age was born. That same ...