Person · Male
Howard Levy
- From
- Brooklyn, United States
- Since
- 1951–present
- Rating
- ★ 4
- Releases
- 11
- jazz
- jazz fusion
About
Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American musician. A keyboardist and virtuoso harmonica player, he "has been realistically presented as one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the twentieth century."
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In 1988, Levy was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song "The Sinister Minister". He also won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition in 2012 for "Life in Eleven", a song written with Béla Fleck for the Flecktones' album Rocket Science (2011). He has worked with Arab-fusion musician Rabih Abou-Khalil, Latin jazz saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon.
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Howard Levy's Acoustic Express harmonica
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Cheveré de Chicago piano, harmonica
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Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- f6cb7a11-0305-4dcd-8ed1-436ef87a2ead
- ISNI
- 0000000071442288
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 7 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.