Have you seen this man walking the streets of Philly? His signature single dread emits musical spores over sidewalks, music halls, and coffeehouses. Elliott is the ubiquitous Philadelphia musician. He has played with everyone...reading his poetry into his flute, literally, improvising with Charles Cohen, Rick Iannacone, and New Ghost, the list is long. A discography appears below.
Elliott studied music and creative writing at the University of Oregon. He also studied extensively with Michael Guera (former saxophonist with thePhiladelphia Orchestra), Cecil Taylor (pianist/composer/improvisor),
and Claire Polin (flutist/composer).
Elliott has performed with groups including Cecil Taylor's Ensemble, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Odeon Popes' Sax Choir, Scram!, New Ghost, Atzilut (Fourth World), and Talking Free Bebop. He has collaborated in performance with poets Miguel Algarin, Gloria Tropp, Mbali Umoja, Marty Watt, and Frank Messina & Spoken Motion among many others. Venues have included Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The United Nations, The U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Yale University, The Greek Theater, Watts Towers, Lollapalooza! and scores of galleries, clubs and theaters. In 1999, he performed at the Crossing Borders Festival in the Hague, the Sexial Jazz Festival in Lisbon and Portugal, The Alternative Festival in Prague, and the Sonic Logos Festival in Philadelphia.
Elliott has received awards from New American Radio (New York), The Cityof Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and the California Endowment for the Humanities.
A prolific poet, Eliott's work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, Blue Beat Jacket (Japan), The Painted Word, Po' Fly, Vital Pulse, Poets & Prophets, and Intervals: The Poems of Musicians (Beehive & Sisyphus Press). A book of Poetry by Elliott Levin was published in 1996 (Heat Press, Los Angeles).
Born in 1953, Elliott Levin is a Philadelphia born and based jazz musician and poet. For ten years he toured the world with Harold Melvin & The Blue otes, as saxophonist in The Sound of Philadelphia band. His poetry has been published in several periodicals including the LA Weekly, Blue Beat acket (Japan), The Painted Word, Po' Fly, The Nile, Vital Pulse, Ozone, and Poets & Prophets. He regularly performs jazz and poetry with Gloria Tropp, Miguel Algarin, Cecil Taylor's groups Phthongas and Unit Core Ensemble, New Ghosts, Interplay and Talking Free Be-Bop. His original music and poetry was recorded for broadcast throughout the USA as part of the New American Radio Series. Elliott performed as solo, and in collaboration with Frank Messina at Lollapalooza in 1994, where they also jammed with Courtney Love in Phila. at a late night jam.
He is currently a member also of drummer (Ornette Coleman, Blood Ulmer, Lounge Lizards)G. Calvin Weston's BIG TREE (www.calvinweston.com); Animus (world/fusion music); The Philadelphia Phenomenon (w/ Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rick Iannacone, Calvin Weston).
CURRENT RECORDINGS:
"Live Upstairs At Nick's"- NEW GHOST (ESP-Disk, 2007))
"Secret Voices- No Time For Silence- with Tim Motzer, Enrico Marani, etc. (poetry & music- 1Krecordings, 2006)
"Locked and Loaded"- Odean Pope's Saxophone Choir w/ Michael Brecker, James Carter, Joe Lovano, etc. (Halfnote Records, 2006)
"Opportunities & Advantages" (original title-"ON IN ONONDAGA")w/Marshall Allen & Tyrone Hill- (CIMP Recs.)
"The Light of Corona"; "Almeda"-Live in Berlin/ Cecil Taylor's Ensemble (F.M.P.)
Alan Silva's Vision Orchestra (Eremite)
The Motion of Emotion/ Elliott Levin Quartet, w/ Denis Charles (CIMP LTD, 1998)
A Fine Intensity/ Elliott Levin-Tyrone Hill Quartet (CIMP Ltd, 1999)
Souletide/ Elliott Levin-Tyrone Hill Quartet (CIMP Ltd, 2000)
"NOW is Rising"- Earth People (Undivided Vision Records, 2005)
"The Inner Realities Of Evolution"- Don Preston's Akashic Ensemble (Brain Records, 2002)
"When We Were Young"- Calvin Weston's Big Tree (It's A Pleasure, 2001)
"When I Was A Girl"- Iris Lord's The Divine Monochord (LordPatty Productions)
"Biting The Tongue"- Frank Messina & Spoken Motion (Spokeface Records.1997)
"Olduvai Music"- Olduvai (Tiwa Records)
"Iltar"- Iltar (Tiwa Records)
Poetry in Philadelphia (Welcome Worlds Cassettes)
A Gift of Ghosts (New American Radio)
Postcards from the Edge... On the Road (New American Radio)
"The Fourth World"; "Atzilut" (Jack Kessler Productions)
"Animus- Live at The Tin Angel"- Animus (Animus Productions)
If It Dropped In Your Neighborhood You'd Look Up Too! (West Philadelphia Compilation -Starfish Productions).
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TeleMagica Art and Music Festival is an annual event in the pristine natural landscape of Jacumba CA, 1 hour East of San Diego.
TELEMAGICA 2010, "LUMINESCENCE: The Year We Ignite" June 4/5/6, 2010 3 days/2 nights TICKETS ON-LINE ONLY: T.B.A, beginning 2010 A GATHERING FOR THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PERCEPTION.
The Promised Land: a landscape without limitations, where you can hear and discover music and performance art on stages, as well as in a rock cave or on a high mountain peak. A beach-like sandwash where your campsite is part of an entire tribal village celebrating each other, the expansive fresh air, as well as the full moon & a million stars at night. This land enhances magic, and your silent understanding! Within the sounds, the sculptures, the pyramid and the WaterSight Mineral Spring Dreaming Tubs, you awaken your senses.... you will find answers to questions that have gone un-answered..... This is more than a festival gathering, this is about discovering your next level of creativity, with other brothers and sisters counting down to 2012.
TeleMagica provides a stage for painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, photographers, film makers, performance artists, neo-vaudville, graf artists and creative ritualists coming together for exchange of ideas and talents, for connectivity and collaboration on projects, and for rejuvenation in a world where the support for the non-commercial arts has been evaporating.
This is our 7th annual... in 09 we joined and Aligned the tribes and in 2010, en mass we will IGNITE from within to create LUMINESCENCE, straightening our indiv
the Worms play the Works 9pm on Wednesday the 25th of November. the night before Thanksgiving.. Line up is Kris Kehr , Trey LaRue, Joel Henry and James Jewell. so if you wana hear some honest to goodness Berks county music, come on out and dance... ps thanks to all for such a great time at the works last time!! the Worms play the Works Wednesday November 25, 2009 - 9:00 PM The Works 1109 Bern Road Reading, Pennsylvania 19610 USA Cost: free
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Elliott Levin/Don Preston Duo & HMS Coll.TRIBAL CAFE 11/15
Elliott Levin S. CAl. Tour this week
Legendary Performance. Live
Elliott Levin/Don Preston Duo & HMS Coll.TRIBAL CAFE 11/15
SUN., Nov. 15 7:30 - 11 PM.
DON PRESTON/....ELLIOTT LEVIN DUO (poetry & music)
&
HMS COLLECTIVE Primz Panther(....Sampler 303, Vocals) Tainonegro(..Guitars And Percussion) Jah Sun(..Circuit-Bent Keyboards and other instruments) Dolphinbrain(..Samplers, MPC, Vocals,..Percussion) In Then I (MPC,Vocals, Samples) Avant Abstracts(..Group)(Guitar, Bass, and Drums)
at THE TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St. (213)483-4458
Mon., Nov. 16 playing with THE NATIONAL RIFLE at : The House of Blues 8430 SUnset Bl.; (323)848-5100 8 PM.
Tues., Nov. 17: THE NATIONAL RIFLE at: The Whiskey A- GO-GO 8901 W. Sunset Bl.; (310)652-4202 8 PM.
Wed., Nov. 18 ; EL meets SEESAW; PEA, HMS Collective, & more... Pharoahs Den 3579 University Ave., Riverside, CA; (951)683-5627
Thurs., Nov. 19 EL Meets SEESAW The Soda Bar 3615 El Cajon, B
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