L to R: Ira Gitler, unidentified, Red Rodney, Robert Levin, Ira Sullivan.
From a Red Rodney recording session for the Signal label at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, NJ studio. The photo is by Don Schlitten.
Books by Robert Levin
When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot
The Drill Press LLC
Includes: “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot,”
“Peggie (or Sex With a Very Large Woman),”
“Arena,” “Dog Days,” “Spinning the Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception,” “The Author,” “Stupidity: Its Uses & Abuses,” “Recycle This!,“ “Get Your Face Out of My Cigarette!,” “Redefining Insurance Fraud,” “No Stars for the Eclipse,” “Everything’s All Right in the Middle East,” “On Turning Sixty,” “Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the ’60s”
Music & Politics
by John Sinclair and Robert Levin
World Publishing
"Robert Levin's articles...make up the second half of Music and Politics, and they're something else again. He's a quietly briliant writer (not flashy but subtly dazzling) who knows jazz extremely well and who knows how to let us know what he knows. His piece on Sunny Murray says more about the birth of the New Jazz than most writers could say in a volume; the Anthony Braxton interview is one of the freshest, most reassuring articles on the future of music (of the arts in general) that I've read; his 'found critique' of 'Space' by the MJQ, which contrasts Murray's thoughts on music at the White House with President Nixon's introduction of the MJQ in that very place, is brilliant; his piece on the unfortunate evolution of Willis Jackson...is a minor masterpiece; and he's lucid and painful and thoroughly correct when he writes that 'What is meant by 'every man has his price' is that every man has his uncertainty about the validity and sanity of his perception of the truth. To 'sell out' is to capitulate to that uncertainty.'"
—Colman Andrews, Creem
Giants of Black Music
Edited by Pauline Rivelli and Robert Levin, with a foreword by Nat Hentoff
Da Capo Press
When Pacino's Hot, I'm HotThe Drill Press LLC
Includes: “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot,”
“Peggie (or Sex With a Very Large Woman),”
“Arena,” “Dog Days,” “Spinning the Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception,” “The Author,” “Stupidity: Its Uses & Abuses,” “Recycle This!,“ “Get Your Face Out of My Cigarette!,” “Redefining Insurance Fraud,” “No Stars for the Eclipse,” “Everything’s All Right in the Middle East,” “On Turning Sixty,” “Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the ’60s”
Music & Politicsby John Sinclair and Robert Levin
World Publishing
"Robert Levin's articles...make up the second half of Music and Politics, and they're something else again. He's a quietly briliant writer (not flashy but subtly dazzling) who knows jazz extremely well and who knows how to let us know what he knows. His piece on Sunny Murray says more about the birth of the New Jazz than most writers could say in a volume; the Anthony Braxton interview is one of the freshest, most reassuring articles on the future of music (of the arts in general) that I've read; his 'found critique' of 'Space' by the MJQ, which contrasts Murray's thoughts on music at the White House with President Nixon's introduction of the MJQ in that very place, is brilliant; his piece on the unfortunate evolution of Willis Jackson...is a minor masterpiece; and he's lucid and painful and thoroughly correct when he writes that 'What is meant by 'every man has his price' is that every man has his uncertainty about the validity and sanity of his perception of the truth. To 'sell out' is to capitulate to that uncertainty.'"
—Colman Andrews, Creem
Giants of Black Music
Edited by Pauline Rivelli and Robert Levin, with a foreword by Nat Hentoff
Da Capo Press
