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Elliott Levin

If one was to believe descriptive snippets, the thing to do when Elliott Levin approaches is find a place to hide. In a worst case scenario, try to climb a tree — at least, that is the advice hikers would receive about the oncoming approach of something "ferocious...frenzied...bearlike." However, the comparison with bears is based on the size and appearance of the Philadelphia performer, while the other adjectives are filling one of their more esoteric purposes in the English language, attempting to describe just what it is free jazz performers do when they blow into their horns. Whatever it is, Levin does a lot of it, on tenor saxophone and flute

James Brandon Lewis, Clean Feed, and Tomasz Stanko

by Maurice Hogue
March 20, 2023

This episode is packed with interesting new releases, starting with James Brandon Lewis and a new trio and a new label. You'll get a taste of several new albums from the latest batch from Clean Feed Records, as well as Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Aussies Alister Spence at the piano with drummer Tony Buck (The ...

Justice

By Sonic Liberation Front

Label: High Two Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: What; Ain't Nothin' Real BUT Love; Aztec; Justice; Clouds; Dedicated; Round 2000; Lucky One (Where U is, Is Where U At).

Moon Rust Red Streets

By Sonic Liberation Front

Label: High Two Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Moon Rust Red Streets; Lumbering Giant; RIP; Derecho (Storm of Change); Breath Sounds; Hymn for Ashé.

Bombogenic - featuring Oliver Lake

By Sonic Liberation Front

Label: High Two Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tin Palace; Coolin' It; Bombogenic; The Culprit; Gnossienne; Streamin'; Cyclogenic; Love Like Sisters; Floatin'.

The Jazz Bridge "Jazz In The Wood,” First Thursdays, Neighborhood Concerts Series Presents Saxophonist/Flutist/Poet Elliott Levin And His Quartet

October 20, 2014

The Jazz Bridge “Jazz in the Wood,” First Thursdays, Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Collingswood Community Center, East Collings Avenue in Collingswood, NJ—presents saxophonist/flutist/poet Elliott Levin and his quartet on Thursday, December 4. One show starts at 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 856-858-8914 or 215-517-8337. ...

Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014

by Victor L. Schermer
September 26, 2014

Outbeat Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA September 18-21, 2014 The Outbeat Jazz Festival, touted as “America's First Queer Jazz Festival," where the “Q-word" has become an “in" word, proved to be an innovative event that brought the public's attention to the important role of gay (LGBT) jazz musicians and composers. A series ...

Jazz Bridge First Thursdays Neighborhood Concert Series In Collingswood Presents The Elliott Levin Quartet

December 12, 2013

Jazz Bridge presents The Elliott Levin Quartet in concert at the Collingswood Community Center East Collings Avenue in Collingswood, on Thursday, January 2, as a part of their First Thursdays Neighborhood Concerts Series. Showtime is 7:30 p..m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 856-858-8914, 215-517-8337 or visit jazzbridge.org. ...

Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter Evans: Electric Fruit

by Clifford Allen
March 18, 2011

Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter EvansElectric FruitThirsty Ear2011 Percussionist and improviser Weasel Walter often uses the term “face rip" to describe a particularly intense musical experience. In improvised music, you often don't get a “blood and guts" approach; free jazz, in many instances, has been ...

Marc Edwards / Weasel Walter Group: Blood Of The Earth

by Mark Corroto
July 6, 2010

Double drummer-led free jazz sessions come with a price, and both aural and contemplative muscles need to be flexed. With Blood Of The Earth, from drummers Marc Edwards and Weasel Walter, the challenges for immersion in a sonic concentration of spontaneity and stamina. But this is not your father's retread of John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!, 1965). ...