PRESS RELEASE

February 10, 2012 

 

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For Immediate Release
For Immediate Release

Urban Music Presents
Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge
@ George's Nightclub

Thursday March15   

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  8pm Show / $12 adv / $15 door

 

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San Francisco, February 10, 2012 - Urban Music Presents in conjunction with George's Nightclub presents a NEW JAZZ SERIES! Thursday March 15, Jazz at George's is featuring Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge at George's Nightclub at 9:00 p.m.

What is the Latin Tinge?

In a memorable quote, Jelly Roll Morton said that a "Spanish tinge" was necessary in jazz. He was referring to the voluminous traffic, musical and otherwise, between Havana and New Orleans around the turn of the 20th Century.

 

One of the legacies of this cultural interchange is Latin jazz. Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge draws it's rhythmic inspiration from both Afro-Cuban music and jazz - you might hear rumba, timba, songo, mambo, straight ahead, and 6/8 rhythms in a single tune.

 

"Mark Levine's genius allows him to play...with an intimate knowledge of both Monk and Chucho Vald�s." - Eliseo Cardona, CD Now

 

"...a great example of small group Afro-Cuban jazz." - Bobby Sanabria, drummer and educator

 

"This CD is the real deal." - Marty Sheller

 

"...absolutely incredible and inspired." - Donald Brown

 

"This is a great recording." - Hubert Laws

 

About Mark Levine

 

The Two time Grammy-nominated pianist Mark Levine and his ensemble of West Coast musicians draw rhythmic inspiration from both Afro-Cuban music and jazz in what Latin Beat calls "the preeminent jazz quartet found north of Havana."

Mark Levine began playing jazz as a teenager in Daytona Beach, Florida. Continuing his education in Boston and New York, Mark studied with Hall Overton, Herb Pomeroy and Jaki Byard, before moving to California in 1966.

A key phase in Mark's education was a year spent in Woody Shaw's quartet. "Every night was serious school," says Mark.

Mark spent significant time working with Joe Henderson, Blue Mitchell, David Liebman and Harold Land, composing all the while. Joe recorded two of Mark's tunes on "Canyon Lady," the late tenor giant's only Latin jazz album. Mark returned the favor by playing two of Joe's classic compositions, "Inner Urge," and "A Shade Of Jade," on his 2000 release, "Serengeti."

His interest in Latin jazz led to work with Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Moacir Santos, Francisco Aguabella, Pete Escovedo, and Cal Tjader (including Cal's Grammy-winning Concord Jazz recording "La Onda Va Bien").

Twice, Mark has been the recipient of a National Endowment For the Arts Grants (1975 and 1977) and was awarded a "Jammie" as Best Bay Area Jazz trombonist, 1983-1984 (no, he no longer plays trombone, but he has taken up the gimbri, a Moroccan 3-stringed lute).

 
 
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