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Hyde Park Jazz Fest on Chicago’s South Side to Present 20th Edition
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will take place for the 20th time on the final weekend of September 2026. Beginning half…
The tour kicks off February 28 at LA's Alterknit Theatre, and will feature Levy backed by Red Young on Hammond organ and Brannen Temple on drums, performing the gritty sounds Memphis soul that inform Levy's new album Get Your Glow On.
Recorded at Memphis' Sounds Unreel studio and set for April 8 release on Levy's Lost Wax label, Glow features Levy playing with top-shelf Memphis musicians, including drummer Steve Potts (Booker T. & the MG's, Al Green) saxophonist Jim Spake (Arthur Alexander, Lorette Velvette), bassist David Smith (Luther Allison) and trumpet player Scott Thompson (James Carr, Rufus Thomas). Levy also assembled a dream list of vocalists for the album including, Jones, who sings a beautiful version of Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender," Memphis-via-Chicago soul legend Otis Clay who belts out Bob Dylan's "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You," the Holmes Bros. who put their stamp on Goffin/King's "No Easy Way Down" and a talented, young Memphis vocalist, Susan Marshall, whose singing recalls another Memphis legend, Ann Peebles.
The tour dates are as follows:
Feb. 28: AlterKnit Theatre, Los Angeles
March 2: Soho, Santa Barbara, Calif.
March 4: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz, Calif.
March 5: Boom Boom Room, San Francisco
March 6: Rumour's, Eureka, Calif.
March 9: Tractor, Seattle
March 12: Tugboat, Steamboat Springs, Colo.
March 13: Bleu, Colorado Springs, Colo.
March 14: Fox Theater, Boulder, Colo.
March 15: Quixote's, Denver
March 22: Elephant Room, Austin, Texas
April 4: Tonic, New York
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