Stewart Levine

The career of Bronx-born musician and producer Stewart Levine is one marked by long-term associations with artists such as for example Hugh Masekela, Simply Red, as well as the Crusaders. Many at home whenever using percussion-based groupings, Levine is certainly a graduate from the Manhattan College of Music, where he examined theory and fulfilled friend and longtime collaborator Hugh Masekela. Both teamed up to produce the Chisa label in the middle-’60s, an wall plug for their like of African rhythms and UNDER-DEVELOPED artists. The set loved their biggest strike with 1968’s The Guarantee of another, which Masekela documented and Levine created; the strike “Grazing in the Grass” became a breakthrough for globe music. Levine after that constructed on his percussive weighty use Masekela when he teamed up using the Jazz Crusaders to create almost all of their ’70s result. When Chisa was bought out from the Blue Notice label, Levine prolonged his production tasks even further, getting an unbiased and manning the table for the jazz fusion from the Dixie Dregs, aswell as several traditional albums by blues story B.B. Ruler. In the ’80s Levine started a wildly effective collaboration with U.K. neo-soul music group Simply Crimson. The group’s debut, Picture Publication, spawned two tremendous hits, “Money’s As well Tight (TO SAY)” and “Keeping Back again the Years,” and, despite the fact that their U.S. graph dominance fizzled, under Levine’s professional tutelage Simply Crimson continued to possess hits within their indigenous U.K.