Showing posts with label Alto sax jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alto sax jazz. Show all posts
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Soprano Sax: Leviticus Gory
Levidicus playing Take 5
Leviticus playing Serenade in Blue
Interview with Leviticus
Artist: Leviticus Gorey
Medium: Soprano sax
Location: 14th Street Station on the uptown 1,2,3 platform
Aside from having an awesome name, Leviticus is a third generation New Yorker from Manhattan. He graduated from Julliard on classic flute and picked up the saxophones while studying jazz as an extension student at Manhattan School of Music. What you hear here are his alto-sax skills.
For Leviticus, playing in the subway is therapy. When he plays in clubs he’s gotta play popular stuff, but playing in the subway gives him a chance to play “something I like and is classic and maybe other people can identify with.” Although Leviticus has a lot of his own tunes, he particularly likes to play classics, ballads and showtunes.
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Influences - To many to name but select three: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, George Coleman
Really like what you hear? Contact him for a gig
646-320-4166
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