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Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz
Performing since his early teens in Saratoga, CA, Lebo’s path has been one of constant exploration, both sonically and conceptually. While obtaining a degree in Ethnomusicology at The University of California, Santa Barbara, he co-founded ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) with childhood friends Zach Gill and Steve Adams. The band was groomed in their early years by James Brown, and have since recorded nine albums (the last 6 have been released on Jack Johnson’s record label, Brushfire Records/Universal Republic). ALO tours the world, playing prestigious amphitheaters and regularly headlining multi-night runs, at venues such as San Francisco's legendary Fillmore Auditorium.
In addition to ALO, Lebo leads his own band, Lebo & Friends, featuring a rotating cast of musical legends and rising stars. Lebo has become an in demand musical director and featured guest at events around the globe, instantly elevating all lineups he joins. Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz is synonymous with the art of collaboration, and appears simultaneously in more high profile projects than many musicians do in a lifetime.
In recent years, he has been embraced by the Grateful Dead family, memorably collaborating with the surviving members on separate occasions. During a Bay Area concert with Bob Weir, highly respected scribe, Blair Jackson, offered the lofty praise: "I was really impressed by Lebo's guitar work which sounded like a combination of (Jerry) Garcia and George Benson, but was completely original." He regularly performs with Phil Lesh & Friends at Terrapin Crossroads and has also joined Lesh at the legendary Capitol Theater in NY.
When Lebo is not on tour, or adventuring around San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and Siberian Forest Cat, Merlin Moon, he spends his time in his studio Leboland. Equal parts recording studio and sonic exploration laboratory, it is here that he can be found composing, recording, and producing.
No matter what, where, how or who, music is Lebo's equivalent to breathing air or drinking water.
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Jazz Great Dan Damon Breaks Barriers With New Album 'Needed Time'
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Jessica Morris Media
Needed Time, the new album by international jazz stalwart Dan Damon is out now. Delivering a bluesy take on spirituals like “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands,” the instrumental record breaks down the walls of religion, offering hope. Featuring a collaboration between Damon on piano, and celebrated Bay Area bassist Kurt Ribak, listeners are treated to a modern rendition of Lightnin' Hopkins 1950 classic “Needed Time.” From here, Damon taps into his religious roots, pairing his 33 years ...
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Nicole Zuraitis & Dan Pugach: When Jazz Is Like Love
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Gregory Golub
I first hear Nicole Zuraitis dabout three years ago and I was immediately drawn in by the power and charm of her voice. The richness of overtones in her timbre quite literally caresses the ear—even an experienced listener like me—a jazz musician and composer with a few decades in music. This was before her ascent into what you might call the “Olympus” of American music—even though the nominations were already there. You could still clearly feel that she was searching ...
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New Book: "You've Got Michael—Living Through HIStory" by Dan Beck
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N. Hepburn-Beaty
In 1991, Dan Beck became Michael Jackson’s main marketing contact at Epic Records. For five rollercoaster years, he was immersed in a world of unequalled stardom, dealing with the outsized ambition, whims and idiosyncrasies of the world’s most famous entertainer. It was a pivotal point in Jackson’s career. His last album had failed to repeat the record-shattering success of Thriller. Rumors about his personal life and his eccentricities had made him the subject of gossip and accusations. Tabloids had begun ...
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Dan Morgenstern (1929-2024)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dan Morgenstern, an eight-time Grammy winner for his album liner notes, the former director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, author and a “jazz advocate," as he liked to be called, died on September 7. He was 94. Despite all of those titles, Dan was the music's most well-regarded historian and paternal figure among writers and critics. But despite his seniority and in-depth, first-hand knowledge of post-war jazz, he never lost his wit, passion or ability to put jazz's ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!
Dan Papirany is a former jazz pianist and a jazz bassist based in Bundaberg, Austalia. As a pianist Dan took his group to perform two shows at Europe's prestige festival EUROPAfest 2016 and he also performed two solos in EUROPAfest 2018 gala concerts. Dan was on a panel of Judges in the 2017- 2019 international jazz competition in Romania. Dan first album was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year at ...
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Nightfly - Biography of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Available Now on Chicago Review Press
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All About Jazz
September this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first record by Steely Dan, the band formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in 1972 that went on to release nine albums over the 30 years that followed. Now Chicago Review Press is publishing Nightfly: the Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen by music journalist and author Peter Jones. The book is a warts-and-all account that not only relates the often-untold stories behind one of rock’s most iconic bands, but ...
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A Misty Night for Dan Miller
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Musician friends, family and friends, and students from near and far packed The Barrel Room at Twisted Vine Bistro in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday night, September 1, for a jazz night unlike any other the venue has seen. They were all there, standing room only through the first set, to celebrate the musical legacy of trumpeter and educator Dan Miller, who died unexpectedly on August 19 at age 53. The Barrel Room has been the Thursday night home for ...
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Dan Miller: A Life Well-Lived, And Then Some....
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Someone's impact on others is a more meaningful measure of a life well-lived than the number of years they spend on the planet. That notion was reinforced today when we received word that Dan Miller died unexpectedly yesterday (Friday, August 19). He was just 53. Dan was passionate about a lot of things—auto racing and other sports, fine food, and his family. Most of us knew him best through his many contributions to the world of jazz. He was a ...
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The Jazz Side of Dan Ingram
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you grew up in New York in the 1960s, you often found yourself glued to the radio after school. Hoping for your favorite songs, you bounced back and forth between the city's two big Top-40 stations—WABC at 77 on the dial and WMCA, at 520, “home of the Good Guys." On WABC, Dan Ingram was the afternoon DJ. “Big Dan" began at the “all-American station" with “the most music" in 1961 and was known for his fast, off-beat sense ...
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Dan Papirany's New Album 'I Trio' Is A Unique Individual Project
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Dan Papirany
Multi-instrumentalist Dan Papirany has released I Trio, an album of mostly original compositions with the exception of “Groove Evolution” by Brett Loretz who also plays trumpet on the track. I Trio has a mixture of compositional influences. Two compositions were inspired by Steve Gadd drumbeats. In the composition “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Blubber” Papirany utilises Gadd’s “Fifty Ways” drum beat which was originally featured on a Paul Simon song. The “Mozambique” drumbeat is also associated with Gadd, and it ...
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