{"id":8238,"date":"2017-03-05T20:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2017-03-05T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T04:25:03","slug":"lou-levy-in-italy-with-getz-brown-and-thigpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/03\/lou-levy-in-italy-with-getz-brown-and-thigpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Levy In Italy With Getz, Brown And Thigpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LouLevy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LouLevy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LouLevy-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Today is Lou Levy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. Until his death at 72, the great second-generation bop pianist (1928-2001) played with Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Second Herd, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Dizzy Gillespie and Shorty Rogers, among dozens of other major jazz artists. He was a treasured accompanist to singers including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O&#8217;Day and his longtime companion Pinky Winters.<\/p>\n<p>Levy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s close relationship with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz went back to their time together in the Herman band from 1948 to 1952. I remember his concern and affection for Getz in the early 1990s when Getz had fallen ill from what turned out to be a fatal cancer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going over to Malibu again to hold that blue-eyed devil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Levy told me. Here are the old friends in Levy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quartet in Italy in 1961. Ray Brown is the bassist, Ed Thigpen the drummer. They play Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Woody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ah, Moore,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d written by Al Cohn, Lou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s colleague in the Herman reed section. The sound is adequate but a bit muffled. You may want to crank up your volume a bit.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rP6TlQMdn-w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Missing Lou Levy. Always glad to hear (and see) him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Lou Levy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. Until his death at 72, the great second-generation bop pianist (1928-2001) played with Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Second Herd, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Dizzy Gillespie and Shorty Rogers, among dozens of other major jazz artists. He was a treasured accompanist to singers including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}