| "The most rewarding part of being
within the fabric of the music scene for 30 plus years, is when people
with who you have been good friends, continue to set the bar a little
higher in defining what good music is all about. If heart and soul, and
digging into the well of real musicianship is what you love, Jeff Levine
sitting behind a keyboard, the console, or a B3, is a man you want to
know. It is pure, solid, fun to listen to his work, and even better to
trade licks with a real master. I only wish I had more opportunities to
do so." To play a hammond organ properly is an art unto itself
that very few keyboard players have mastered. Jeff Levine is simply the
best hammond organ player I know. We met in Boston in 1976. Jeff had just
left his gig with the Chambers Brothers, who at the height of their career
had asked Jeff to join the band when he was only 19. After moving to New
York in 1987, he began landing such coveted gigs as Joe Cocker and Hall
and Oates. I really love what his soulful roots bring to the music. |