NICK LEVINOVSKY
Genres: Post Bop, Classic Fusion, Big Band, Hard Bop • Russia

Levinovsky, Nick (Nikolay Jacovlevich), pianist, composer; b. Saratov, Russia, 14 December 1944. His father, Jacob Levinovsky, was born in 1895 in Suwalki, Poland and died in 1974 in Saratov, Russia. He was an opera singer. His mother, Tamara Bezotvetova, was born in 1911 in Yaroslavl, Russia, and died in 1979 in Moscow, Russia. She also was an opera singer. His brother, Sergey Levinovsky, was born in 1950 in Saratov, Russia. Hes a musician, playing saxophone and flute and working as an arranger. Nick attended Saratov Music College (1959-1963) and Saratov State Conservatory (1968-1974). As a young boy growing up in Saratov in the former Soviet Union, was expected to become a classical pianist or orchestral conductor. His parents, both opera singers, started their son on the piano at age 6. Gifted though he was, Levinovsky nevertheless drifted through his musical training until one day when his father tuned their short-wave radio read more...