Howard Levy
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Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist.
He was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he received a Grammy Award in 1997 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song "The Sinister Minister."
In 2012, he received a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for his album "Life in Eleven," a song written with Béla Fleck for the Flecktones' album Rocket Science (2011).
He has worked with Arab-fusion musician Rabih Abou-Khalil, Latin jazz saxophonist Pagano D'Rivera, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon.
Music career
Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and he studied piano and pipe organ at the Manhattan School of Music. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and was a member of the jazz band for two years. He is the ArtistWorks tutor.
Levy appears in many styles: jazz, classical, rock, folk, Latin, blues, country, and world music. He attracted notice for his chromatic playing style on a regular diatonic harmonica. In 1970, he discovered the overblow and overdraw techniques for chromatic playing. These enable a harmonica player to obtain all of the missing chromatic notes in the Richter-tuned diatonic harmonica.
In 1995, he appeared in the "Harmonia Mundi Suite for Harmonica and Chamber Ensemble" in Chicago. In 2001, he created a concerto for harmonica and performed it with orchestras in the United States and Europe.
Levy co-founded Béla Fleck and the Flecktones in 1988. For the album "The Sinister Minister," he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Pop Instrumental. In 1992, he left the band. Levy performed with Kenny Loggins and appeared on his album Outside the Redwoods. In 2011, Levy returned to the Flecktones, performing and recording the album Rocket Science (2011).
Levy and Eugene Friesen and Glen Velez formed Trio Globo in the 1990s. He plays for Acoustic Express as well as being the music director of Chévere de Chicago's Latin jazz band.
Balkan Samba Records is run by Hector Samba Records. Chévere de Chicago, Alberto Mizrahi, and Trio Globo, Fox Fehling, and Norman Savitt are among the roster's notables.
Kenny Loggins, John Prine, Benjamin Sidran, Bobby McFerrin, Chris Siebold, Claudio Roditi, Kevin Smith, Dennis Bromberg, Dennis DeYoung, Dennis Fagan, Donald Fagen, Jerry Butler, Paxton, Terry Goodman, David Pattin, Steve Carrington, John Dore, John Prine, John Prine, Benjamin Sidran, Billy McFerrin, Chris Siebold, Josh McFerrin, Colin Levy
Awards and honors
- Joseph Jefferson Award, Best Original Music for a Play (1986)
- Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental, "The Sinister Minister", Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (1997)
- Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, "Life in Eleven" (2012)