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Stewart Levine
Stewart Levine (born 1946) is an American record producer. He has worked with many artists such as The Crusaders, Minnie Riperton, Lionel Richie, Simply Red, Hugh Masekela, Huey Lewis and the News, Patti LaBelle, Sly Stone, Boy George, Oleta Adams, Killing Joke, Jon Anderson, Boz Scaggs, Womack and Womack, The Marshall Tucker Band and Curiosity Killed the Cat.
Levine was born and raised in The Bronx. At the age of seven, Levine began his lifelong musical journey by taking up the clarinet. After switching to the saxophone at age twelve, he was playing professionally by age fourteen.
At the age of seventeen Levine entered the Manhattan School of Music alongside musicians Herbie Hancock, Donald Byrd, and South African trumpet player Hugh Masekela. Levine and Masekela became close friends.
Levine left the Manhattan School of Music after one year to pursue a career as a horn player and arranger. He developed his skills as an arranger on many high-profile pop and R&B recordings. This experience led Levine into forming a production company with Hugh Masekela. They began producing records that were a hybrid of South African township grooves crossed with rhythm and blues and jazz. They left New York and moved to Los Angeles to form Chisa Records, an independent label. Levine produced Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass".
While in California, Levine met members of The Jazz Crusaders, a group who had already built a small, but loyal, following. Levine signed them to Chisa Records with the idea of combining the funk of their native Texas alongside the jazz for which they were known. This was the beginning of a style that would become known as jazz-funk and, later, "Rare Groove". Levine produced over a dozen albums with The Crusaders.
In 1974, Levine came up with the idea of putting together a music festival Zaire 74 in Kinshasa set around The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match – the Ali/Foreman fight in Zaire. He produced the festival. The event was filmed and eventually released in 1996 as the documentary When We Were Kings.
Levine returned to recording, producing Minnie Riperton’s third album, Adventures in Paradise. This led to a productive period in which he produced albums by Van Morrison, Lamont Dozier's Peddlin' Music on the Side, which featured the song "Goin' Back to My Roots" and the début album of Randy Crawford. Levine developed a close relationship with Phil Walden and Capricorn Records, producing a series of albums with southern rock artists The Marshall Tucker Band, as well as The Allman Bros.
Levine produced the first of six albums with B.B. King. Midnight Believer was a hit, putting B.B. King back on the charts with a gold album after a long absence. This was followed by King's Grammy winning There Must Be a Better World Somewhere.
Stewart Levine
Stewart Levine (born 1946) is an American record producer. He has worked with many artists such as The Crusaders, Minnie Riperton, Lionel Richie, Simply Red, Hugh Masekela, Huey Lewis and the News, Patti LaBelle, Sly Stone, Boy George, Oleta Adams, Killing Joke, Jon Anderson, Boz Scaggs, Womack and Womack, The Marshall Tucker Band and Curiosity Killed the Cat.
Levine was born and raised in The Bronx. At the age of seven, Levine began his lifelong musical journey by taking up the clarinet. After switching to the saxophone at age twelve, he was playing professionally by age fourteen.
At the age of seventeen Levine entered the Manhattan School of Music alongside musicians Herbie Hancock, Donald Byrd, and South African trumpet player Hugh Masekela. Levine and Masekela became close friends.
Levine left the Manhattan School of Music after one year to pursue a career as a horn player and arranger. He developed his skills as an arranger on many high-profile pop and R&B recordings. This experience led Levine into forming a production company with Hugh Masekela. They began producing records that were a hybrid of South African township grooves crossed with rhythm and blues and jazz. They left New York and moved to Los Angeles to form Chisa Records, an independent label. Levine produced Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass".
While in California, Levine met members of The Jazz Crusaders, a group who had already built a small, but loyal, following. Levine signed them to Chisa Records with the idea of combining the funk of their native Texas alongside the jazz for which they were known. This was the beginning of a style that would become known as jazz-funk and, later, "Rare Groove". Levine produced over a dozen albums with The Crusaders.
In 1974, Levine came up with the idea of putting together a music festival Zaire 74 in Kinshasa set around The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match – the Ali/Foreman fight in Zaire. He produced the festival. The event was filmed and eventually released in 1996 as the documentary When We Were Kings.
Levine returned to recording, producing Minnie Riperton’s third album, Adventures in Paradise. This led to a productive period in which he produced albums by Van Morrison, Lamont Dozier's Peddlin' Music on the Side, which featured the song "Goin' Back to My Roots" and the début album of Randy Crawford. Levine developed a close relationship with Phil Walden and Capricorn Records, producing a series of albums with southern rock artists The Marshall Tucker Band, as well as The Allman Bros.
Levine produced the first of six albums with B.B. King. Midnight Believer was a hit, putting B.B. King back on the charts with a gold album after a long absence. This was followed by King's Grammy winning There Must Be a Better World Somewhere.