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Adam Levy

Adam Levy is best known for his steady gig as the featured guitarist in Norah Jones' Handsome Band. He played on her breakout 2002 disk Come Away with Me and her 2004 follow-up Feels Like Home. More recently, he played on Amos Lee's eponymous Blue Note debut. In addition to Levy's skills as a player, he is a gifted songwriter. He penned "In the Morning" for Jones' Feels Like Home, and other artists have recorded his songs as well. The best way to hear Levy's folk/pop/blues gems, however, is straight from the source.


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Todd Sickafoose: Bear Proof

Read "Bear Proof" reviewed by Vic Albani


Era dai fasti di Tiny Resistors (uscito nel 2008 per la Cryptogramophone dell'amico Jeff Gauthier e che invitiamo a riascoltare per la bellezza che lo ammanta) che il signor Todd Sickafoose non regalava al mondo un nuovo lavoro. Inneggiato da più voci quale coerente ed intelligentissimo musicista nonché compositore e produttore Sickafoose è stato talmente occupato da non avere avuto tempo per dilettarsi ancora una volta con l'idea che lo ha subito posto all'attenzione del mondo musicale sin ...

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Todd Sickafoose: Bear Proof

Read "Bear Proof" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Bassist Todd Sickafoose released only one album as a leader prior to this one, Tiny Resistors, (Cryptogramophone, 2008). However, he has kept busy in the music world since then. He has extensively worked as a sideman and producer, including collaborating with singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, and he has orchestrated the Broadway musical, “Hadestown," winning a Tony award in the process. Now he is back with an album that reaffirms him as one of those musicians who are ostensibly based in jazz ...

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Todd Sickafoose: Tiny Resistors

Read "Tiny Resistors" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


With lush orchestrations of finely honed compositions, bassist Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors reveals a broad musical vision. A stalwart of the new music scene, playing improv and indie-rock projects and blurring those distinctions, Sickafoose's third CD highlights his maturation as a composer and talents as a multi-instrumentalist, with pieces incorporating a swath of stylistic influences--rock, Americana, jazz, blues and touches of modern classical. Sickafoose works a sweeping aural range, with instrumentation that includes two guitars, drums and ...

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Todd Sickafoose: Tiny Resistors

Read "Tiny Resistors" reviewed by John Kelman


An active sideman, bassist Todd Sickafoose is best-known for his work with DIY singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. But he's also been very busy on the outer edges of jazz, working with artists including John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), Tin Hat Trio on The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope, 2002), and Scott Amendola Band on the drummer's very fine Cry (Cryptogramophone, 2003). It may be Amendola's disc that hooked Sickafoose up with Cryptogramophone for Tiny Resistors, his third record as ...

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Adam Levy: Buttermilk Channel

Read "Buttermilk Channel" reviewed by Joel Roberts


I don't know if guitarist Adam Levy made Buttermilk Channel with the searing heat of New York in July in mind, but his impressive debut effort as a leader makes perfect listening for lazy, languorous midsummer city days.

On this groove-based trio album (featuring New York stalwarts Larry Goldings on organ and Kenny Wollesen on drums), Levy creates a mood of laid-back cool, as he blends classic jazz guitar ("Sphere of Influence'), down-home blues ("I Guess"), tropical rhythms ("Orange You ...

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Shadow

Blues & Greens
2024

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Bear Proof

Secret Hatch Records
2023

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Say it Quiet

Sunnyside Records
2021

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Town & Country

Lost Wax Music
2014

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Tiny Resistors

Cryptogramophone
2008

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Get Your Glow On

Meta Records
2003

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