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| Official Pre-Release Listening Party for Levitt Legacy Klezmer Special Performances by the Levitt Legacy Quartet and Singer/Songwriter Naomi Less will take place Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at Puppet's Jazz Bar, 481 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. The CD is being distributed worldwide by IMG/Universal Music Group. The event will feature a short set of Klezmer Music by the Levitt Legacy Quartet and Singer/Songwriter Naomi Less. Special invited celebrity guests. Marty Levitt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn and taken by his mother to live in Poland for several years at a young age. Upon his return to Brooklyn, Marty was raised in his teen years by his father, Jack Levinsky, trombonist, accordionist, and violinist, and the perennial sideman of such legendary klezmer icons as Dave Tarras, Abe Schwartz, and Naftule Brandwein. It was Schwartz who gave Marty his first professional summer engagement, hiring him to play clarinet with his band at a small hotel in the Catskills in the late 1940s. Marty Levitt, came from a long line of professional Jewish musicians; he was the son on of famed klezmer trombonist Yankl "Jack" Levitt a noted Yiddish theater musician and member of the famed Boibriker Kapelle. During the 1950s and 1960s Marty Levitt together with his wife, vocalist Harriet Kane, had one of New York's most popular Jewish wedding orchestras regularly featuring an eight musician bandstand. Marty Levitt was a musician who really understood the value of his family's musical legacy. He had a literate knowledge of the history of klezmer music and its folklore. The Klezmer Revival has taken center stage in the revitalization of Yiddish culture for over 30 years now, with workshops such as Klezkamp, KlezKanada, Klezfest London, Klezfest St. Petersburg, attracting worldwide attention and putting young people in touch with the older, previously forgotten generation of Jewish musicians. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |