Dec 2020 Ben Levin “Carryout Or Delivery”
Artista / Grupo: Ben Levin
Álbum: Carryout Or Delivery
Discográfica: VizzTone
Año publicación: 2020
Fecha crítica: 12/2020
Valoración: GREAT
Aged twenty one, young piano player and singer Ben Levin comes to reach the throne left vacant by the absence of the always missed David Maxwell and Barrelhouse Chuck Listening to this album one can immediately realize that, with musicians like Ben Levin, the future of piano blues is in good hands Carryout Or Delivery is his third release after the acclaimed Before Me, which was also produced by Vizztone label, which made him get recognition in the blues circles as an original piano player who, despite his youth, perfectly knows all the secrets of the music we passionate love Recorded in the middle of Covid-19 crisis, the recording includes eight Ben Levin’s original songs and four versions that cover a wide range of styles all framed in blues, soul, funk, swing or traditional jazz in the path of forties rhythm & blues big bands Ben is backed by his father, guitar player Aron Levin, together with Chris Douglass on bass and Oscar Bernal on drums and percussion, plus the backing vocals of Josh Levin, Aron Levin, Howard Cohen and Matt Hueneman in the song Carryout Or Delivery which gives title to the album If Blues Music Awards gave notoriety to this excellent singer, piano player and composer, this album definitively confirms his quality and launches him to the front line of the best actual blues piano players