Album Notes

Lonie Levister is a bitch!
Miles Davis

Lonie Levister is unmistakably gifted.
Leonard Bernstein

Alonzo Levister is one of the most passionate and most important composers this country has ever produced. The celebrated—and essentially artificial—war between music known as classical and the music known as jazz does not occur in his work…
James Baldwin

His album, Manhattan Monodrama, on Charles Mingus’s Debut Records included Slow Dance which was recorded by John Coltrane.

Alonzo Levister is one of the group of great jazz-fusion creators of the period from the Harlem ‘40’s Minton’s Playhouse, to the Paris Caves and New York's 52nd Street to Greenwich Village Jazz Joints of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s.

Levister has recently re-emerged after thirty years of silence, during which he waged a successful battle with cancer and the bottle, plus spending time as an expatriate in Tahiti.

His new CD album titled “Jazzanova,” is a Jazz/Bossa Nova/Blues fusion, from which comes the Song for Katrina single version.


For more information please see his website "jazznopera.com" or "my space."