Jazz Articles about Evan Salvacion Levine

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Connor Bernhard: Pathways

by Jeff Cebulski
May 20, 2026

Nearly five years after his debut album Altitude (BASE Records, 2020), Chicago trumpeter Connor Bernhard gathered most of that album's cohorts for his second recording as a leader, Pathways. What also returns is the same bright, engaging horn that distinguishes Bernhard and lifts the proceedings significantly. His band--the three repeaters Julius Tucker on piano, Jeff Swanson on guitar, and Clif Wallace on drums, joined by Evan Salvacion Levine on bass--follows through with their own engaging support. The unusual combination of ...