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MP3 Rob Levit - Afterimage
9 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Modern Creative Jazz, JAZZ: Chamber Jazz
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Yep, this is the long unavailable sophomore effort by Rob Levit and the Rob Levit Group -- with creative drummer John Mettam, saxophone legend Chris Cheek and bass monster Stephan Crump.
Levit proves his mettle as an innovative composer and improviser on this stunning follow-up to Singularity.
Guitarist/Composer/Educator Rob Levit is a multi-directional artist whose work has been
distinguished by the depth of its originality and the breadth of its interest. Levit lives on the
cutting-edge of artistic inspiration and innovation and is a gifted speaker and facilitator on
leadership, team building, and the creative process. In Summer 2007 he will be a Teaching Artist
in the MATI program at University of Maryland and in November 2007 will be a featured
speaker at the Moss Foundation conference. https://www.tradebit.com
Currently, he serves as an Artist-In-Residence at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, the first
musician selected to that position. In this capacity, he founded of the Lew Cronin Memorial
Concert Series, established in memory and honor of a member of the community who died
suddenly in the spring of 2002. The concert series paired Rob with a sitar and table player from
India, Jen Chapin (Harry Chapin’s daughter), musicians from Persia, Namu Lawanga of Uganda,
Valerie Naranjo, Ingrid Jensen, Tony Geballe, and numerous other performers in concerts that
reflected the diverse cultural make-up of our region. The concert series was designed to be
affordable, bring new audiences to the facility, and use spaces for performance other than the
auditorium. The concert series has since transformed into the Emerging Artist Series, where
Levit has remained Artistic Director, booking many talented artists who have limited forums for
expression for their music in the community.
In addition, he has had an impact on the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Arts Community
by providing educational programs and performances for Leadership Anne Arundel, Anne
Arundel County Public Schools as a teacher educator and providing pro bono workshops or
performances for Bravo on with the Show, Department of Social Services, Hospice of the
Chesapeake, and many others. Levit also founded and directed, along with Lynn Schwartz of
Café Beaux Arts, the Creative Women of Annapolis talk and has given several free and open to
the public talks on creativity in the Chaney Gallery.
In July and August 2006, Levit served as a fellow for the APPEX program at UCLA’s Center for
Intercultural Performance where he lived, collaborated, and performed with creative artists from
the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Germany, and the United States. The program was
sponsored in part by the United States Department of State. In September 2006, Levit was the
recipient of the Annie Award for performing arts given annually to artists “who have made a
lasting, significant and inspiring contribution to an art form, an arts organization, and to the
wider community of Anne Arundel County.” In October 2006, he was awarded the City of
Annapolis Mayor’s Come Together Award for citizens who “have demonstrated significant
contributions to the spirit of community civility.” In January 2007, he was a recipient of
Leadership Anne Arundel’s Community Trustee Award for his community programs and
involvement. In January 2007, he founded 2C (Creating Communities) to foster creativity and the
arts for the underserved with a focus on elementary school children and the mentally-ill.
Levit spent the academic year 2002-2003 as full-time Artist-In-Residence at The Summit School
in Edgewater, Maryland (Anne Arundel County) designing and implementing performance and
music programs for children with learning differences grades 1-8. He is on the roster of arts
educators for Anne Arundel County and the Maryland State Arts Council.
A multiple consecutive recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for
Instrumental Performance and Music Composition and the first ever recipient of the Doris
Duke/Chamber Music America Jazz Composition Award (along with jazz legends Andrew Hill,
Jane Ira Bloom, Marcus Roberts and others), Levit’s compositional approach, Symbol System,
establishes the primacy of melody while creating sometimes quirky and demanding rhythms
within complex original forms. Levit’s ensembles have appeared at many nationally-recognized
jazz clubs and major North American jazz festivals including Montreal, Ottawa and New York to
critical acclaim. He has composed at least fifty original works, including the Julius
Hemphill/Jazz Composers’ Alliance first prize winner Rubicon. He has released and recorded
over fifteen commercially available compact discs. He has performed at First Night Annapolis
five times, performed weekly at 49 WEST for 8 consecutive years and at Galway Bay for two
years and held art exhibitions at Maryland Hall’s AIR Gallery and City Dock Café. He has
painted the album art for his last four CD’s. His 2005 CD Touch the Spirit, a solo instrumental
guitar album, was received to critical acclaim and climbed to #11 on the national New
Age/World Music charts. In November 2006, Levit released Songs of Healing, and album of
original guitar pieces designed for friend, families, and patients of Hospice of the Chesapeake.
In addition to his musical pursuits, Levit is engaged in the pursuit and study of human creativity
and potential. He is an active and published essayist/poet, speaker, and visual artist. Rob Levit is
an artist inspired by improvising artists like Sam Rivers, Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman, and
Charles Mingus who established their own compositional and improvisational identities while
maintaining an abiding belief in the validity of all forms of musical and artistic expression.
Studying and integrating the works of Rumi, Wallace Stevens, Bela Bartok, Paul Klee, and
architect Steven Holl has given Levit a musical and artistic approach that transcends the ordinary
and creates a sound and creative world that is all his own.
He is married to Elaine Morgan Levit, a speech language pathologist, and lives in the city of
Annapolis, MD. A native of Richmond, VA, he is a graduate of the University of Virginia and
New England Conservatory of Music.
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