Daniel Levin

Daniel Levin (* 1974 in Burlington , Vermont ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( cello ) and composer .

Live and act

Levin began learning the cello at the age of six; During his school days he also played the alto and tenor saxophone. At the age of 15 he took classes at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick , Massachusetts, and then studied with Paul Tobias at Mannes College of Music in New York. After a year he moved to the New England Conservatory of Music , where he studied with Joe Maneri , Joe Morris , Hankus Netksy and John McNeil (graduated in 2001), interrupted by several tours. In 2003 he presented his debut album Don't Go It Alone (Riti), on which Dave Ballou (cornet), Matt Moran (vibraphone) and Joe Morris (bass) participated and which received positive feedback in the specialist press; further solo, trio and quartet productions followed with Clead Feed and HatHut Records . He also worked a. a. with Billy Bang , Borah Bergman , Tim Berne , Anthony Braxton , Rob Brown , Gerald Cleaver , Andrew Cyrille , Mark Dresser , Masashi Harada , Tony Malaby , Joe Morris, Joe McPhee , William Parker , Warren Smith and Ken Vandermark . In 2010 Levin received the Jerome Foundation Award . In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 1999 and 2011, including a. also with Joe Giardullo , Michael Marcus , Steve Swell , Scott Fields , François Grillot and Jason Kao Hwang . Currently (2014) he works a. a. in New York with Russ Lossing , Jim Hobbs , Mat Maneri , Tanya Kalmanovitch and Viv Corringham , in Chicago with Jim Baker and Frank Rosaly .

Daniel Levin combines elements of European classical music, American jazz, microanal and new music as well as European improvisation music in his compositions . The critic John Sharpe noted in The New York City Jazz Record about Levin: “He activates all kinds of music with amazing skill: jazz, classical, improvisation , noise , vocal choruses. His technique is undisputed and he delights in the physicality of the instrument. "

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name

• Don't Go It Alone (Riti, 2003), with Joe Morris, Dave Ballou, Matt Moran
• Some Trees (hatOLOGY, 2006), with Joe Morris, Nate Wooley, Matt Moran
• Blurry (hatOLOGY, 2007), with Joe Morris, Nate Wooley, Matt Moran
• Live at Roulette (Clean Feed, 2009), with Nate Wooley, Matt Moran
• Bacalhau (Clean Feed, 2010), with Nate Wooley, Matt Moran
• Inner Landscape (Clean Feed, 2011) solo
• Fuhuffah (Clean Feed, 2008), with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten , Gerald Cleaver
• Organic Modernism (Clean Feed, 2011), Nate Wooley, Matt Moran
• Friction (Clean Feed, 2015)
• Live at Firehouse 12 (2017), with Mat Maneri, Matt Moran, Torbjörn Zetterberg

Cooperations

• Rob Brown Trio: Sounds (Clean Feed, 2007), with Satoshi Takeishi
• Ivo Perelman / Daniel Levin / Torbjörn Zetterberg : Soulstorm (Clean Feed, 2010)
• Rob Brown, Daniel Levin: Natural Disorder (2010)
• Pete Robbins ’s Unnamed Quartet: Live in Brooklyn ( Not Two Records , 2011), with Nate Wooley, Jeff Davis
• Gianni Mimmo , Daniel Levin: Turbulent Flow (Amirani Records, 2012)
• Tony Malaby , Mat Maneri , Daniel Levin: New Artifacts (Clean Feed, 2017)
• Daniel Levin • Chris Pitsiokos • Brandon Seabrook : Stomiidae (Dark Tree, 2018)

Web links

• Web presence
• Brief portrait at All About Jazz
• Daniel Levin at Allmusic (English)
• Daniel Levin at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 8, 2014)
2. ↑ http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/daniel-levin-jim-baker-and-frank-rosaly/Event?oid=14228936
3. ↑ Roulette Presents: Daniel Levin's Coelacanth Feat: Mat Maneri, Russ Lossing & Gerald Cleaver (2014) ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.