Howard Levy

Howard Levy
Howard Levy in concert
Background information
Born (1951-07-31) July 31, 1951
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
GenresJazz fusion, Latin, folk, funk, world
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, record label owner
Instruments
  • Harmonica
  • keyboards
Years active1970s–present
LabelsBalkan Samba
Websitelevyland.com

Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American musician. A keyboardist and virtuoso harmonica player, he "has been realistically presented as one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the twentieth century."

In 1988, Levy was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song "The Sinister Minister". He also won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition in 2012 for "Life in Eleven", a song written with Béla Fleck for the Flecktones' album Rocket Science (2011). He has worked with Arab-fusion musician Rabih Abou-Khalil, Latin jazz saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon.