Results for "Grant Levin"

Grant Levin

From Then 'Till Now

By Noel Jewkes

Label: NJ Records
Released: 2022

Steve Heckman: Legacy: A Coltrane Tribute

by Dan McClenaghan
November 13, 2016

Saxophonist Steve Heckman has spent a good deal of his career walking in the footsteps of saxophone giant John Coltrane, on CD offerings such as Search For Peace (Jazzed Media, 2014) and With John In Mind (World City Music, 2003). With that in mind, nobody has ever--and almost certainly never will--match 'Trane in his ability to ...

Steve Heckman: Legacy: A Coltrane Tribute

by Jack Bowers
August 11, 2016

Whenever words such as A Coltrane Tribute adorn the front cover of an album, one question that inevitably springs to mind is, which John Coltrane? Trane, after all, was never one to stand still, or, as the saying goes, to rest on his laurels (truth be told, he hardly ever rested at all, choosing instead to ...

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: Cheap Rent

by Jack Bowers
August 30, 2015

Yes, the name is intriguing--but what should one expect musically from the San Francisco-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra? Bits and pieces of a number of disparate elements, really, from straight-ahead contemporary motifs to shuffle beats and old-line swing, from down-home New Orleans rhythms to throwback grooves from the '70s and even a seductive ballad. What matters most ...

Tiffany Austin at SFJAZZ

by Walter Atkins
June 16, 2015

Tiffany Austin SFJAZZ, Joe Henderson Lab CD Release Party-Nothing But Soul (Con Alma Music) San Francisco CA June 12, 2015 Vocalist Tiffany Austin and her skilled band took the stage at SFJAZZ's Joe Henderson Lab to celebrate her debut Nothing But Soul (Con Alma Music). With an introduction by tenor ...

The Bust

By Grant Levin

Label: Beezwax Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Segment; Brazilian Dreams; CCC; Windows; Inner Urge; Insatiable/Ubiquity Road; The Bust; Midnight Voyage; Six Million; Steeplechase/Crazeology

Grant Levin Trio: The Bust

by Dennis Hollingsworth
April 7, 2005

Chances are Grant Levin is not a name you will immediately recognize. A Northern California pianist, Grant attended the Jazz Studies program at the University of Nevada at Reno. The Bust is his inaugural effort in the form of a traditional piano trio. Along for the ride are drummer Rufus Haereiti and bassist Hans Halt, a ...