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Michael Levy At Greenwich House
Another remastered acoustic album. My first. Circa 1990. Live at a small venue in Greenwich Village, NYC.
https://michaelalevy.bandcamp.com/album/michael-levy-at-greenwich-house
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I always liked this song. Reminds me of watching Walt Disney on Sunday night after family dinner. I enjoyed your spin on it. The house piano sounds good. You would have liked playing at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase in Chicago. The old room. I’ll listen to the rest of the album during the week. Have a good one.
Good to have you back, Michael, and on a solo piano jazzy tip too, just the way I like it! Hope you're doing well.
I don’t need to comment on the playing, which has me wishing I’d not given up piano lessons as a kid!
I love the texture of this. The background hiss and sound quality evoke nostalgia in a way a pristine recording couldn’t.
Good to see you sharing content here again. :-)
Fantastic sir! “Descent in the Mailroom”… I can hear a techno remix of this in my head, of the Jeff Mills persuasion:
Some powerful keyboarding here! That graphic must be from 1989 as well. Was the remastering done on the ipad? It sounds good.
I was just trying to decipher April in Paris. I know it must be in there somewhere.
Do you have any other 'vintage' recordings? I'm still hoping to hear the musical based on the Time Machine.
Thx @Paulieworld @Gavinski @klownshed @Stuntman_mike The cover was designed by Michael Schwab. Well known in the graphics business in the 80s and 90s.
I can’t deny I was at the top of my playing ability back then. Now I use iOS tricks!
Thanks, @MrStochastic I posted another live album, Thoughtless. Here’s the link…
https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/65167/thoughtless#latest
Boy there’s some serious power and dexterousness (I’ve checked, it is a word) going on here.
It’s great to hear you at a different stage of your life 🙏
It sounds like the audience appreciated you… they should have, the playing and creativity is top notch.
Thanks for posting Mike 👌
Thank you for listening @GeoTony. Yes, it was a different phase of my musical experience. I was a much stronger player back then. For me, however, there was a limitation that eventually caught up with me (till I discovered iOS).
Sometimes bing good at something contains a poison pill. Especially if people like what you do. I have listened to too many jazz players whose evolution seems to have frozen at the point of greatest success. The greatest player, IMO, who did not succumb to this trap was Coltrane. At the time of his greatest success he veered dramatically in the direction of Ornette Coleman. Ironically, Coleman, himself, got caught in his own style. But Coltrane was fearless. He simply did not care if much of his audience could not follow him on his musical journey.
I have seen this, especially, in players from the Tristano school (which I grew up in). Many (not all) of these guys are still playing music that sounds exactly the same as they did decades ago. Yes, they may be doing it better than ever, and, obviously, they are happy with it, so, I am not criticizing them but just illustrating the bifurcation of jazz journies into those who continue to push their personal envelopes and those who seal that envelope in traditionalism.
Both are ok, but, for me, total immersion in a style led to boredom. Frankly, if iOS hadn’t come along I would have stopped creating seven years ago (I had already stopped playing several years before that. Now I find myself in a similar place. As I close in on 100 albums I am not creating new material, but anthologizing. Honestly, I have to accept the possibility that the party is over for me.
However, I have thought that *correctly) before. It is impossible to know if some new horizon, creatively, will present itself as the next phase. Time grows short but, hey, you never know. Whatever happens next I have been blessed by a remarkable teacher and remarkable technology to create with satisfaction for half a century, to expect more would be greedy, but I certainly wouldn’t mind.
Again, Tony, thank you for your continued support. It means a lot!