Jason Levis With Joseph's Bones at California Jazz Conservatory

Composer/drummer and Bay Area native Jason Levis brings his instrumental reggae/live dub band Joseph’s Bones to the California Jazz Conservatory. Joseph’s Bones performs Levis’ original compositions as well as arrangements of reggae classics from Bob Marley to Lee “Scratch” Perry and beyond.

The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition...

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Composer/drummer and Bay Area native Jason Levis brings his instrumental reggae/live dub band Joseph’s Bones to the California Jazz Conservatory. Joseph’s Bones performs Levis’ original compositions as well as arrangements of reggae classics from Bob Marley to Lee “Scratch” Perry and beyond.

The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Over the years his passion and curiosity have led him to search out the intersections of musical paths less traveled, and the resulting unique perspective is reflected in his music. Levis holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the California Jazz Conservatory. He is active as a performer and composer in the United States and Europe.

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