Album: Double Espresso
Artist: Tony Levin Band
2002 Papa Bear Records
CD: PBCD6

The band:
Larry Fast: synthesizers, bass drum (7)
Jesse Gress: guitars, vocals (4, 5)
Tony Levin: bass, cello, Chapman Stick, acoustic guitar (8), lead vocals (9, 17), vocals (4, 5, 10)
Jerry Marotta: drums, sax, vocals, percussion (5), acoustic guitar (8), Funk Finger guitar (7), lead vocals (10, 15)

Additional musicians:
Doug Stringer: drums (5)
California Guitar Trio (Bert Lams, Hideyo Moriya, Paul Richards): acoustic guitars (18)
Pete Levin: keyboards (19)
 

Recorded live at Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY, except (18) recorded at Blueberry Hill, St. Louis

Recorded, assembly and pre-mix engineering: Robert Frazza
Mixing engineer: Terry Brown
Mastering engineer: David Torn
 

Tracks:
DISC ONE:
1. Pieces of the Sun (Levin/Marotta) 7:15
2. Geronimo (Levin/Fast/Gress/Marotta) 3:27
3. Silhouette (Levin) 4:35
4. Dog One (Gabriel) 5:36
5. Tequila (Rio) 5:15
6. Black Dog (Page/Plant/Jones) 5:35
7. Ooze (Levin) 4:33
8. Apollo (Levin) 8:44
9. L'Abito della Sposa (Fossati/Levin) 4:06
10. Sleepless (Belew/Bruford/Fripp/Levin) 6:58

DISC TWO:
11. Pillar Of Fire (Levin) 6:59
12. Ever The Sun Will Rise (Levin) 7:48
13. Phobos (Fast) 7:01
14. The Fifth Man (Levin) 5:56
15. Back in N.Y.C. (Rutherford/Gabriel/Collins/Hackett/Banks) 6:13
16. Utopia (Levin) 7:39
17. Elephant Talk (Belew/Levin/Bruford/Fripp) 5:51
18. Peter Gunn (Mancini) 3:48
19. Belle (Levin) 4:24
 

Notes: (****) If you buy only one Tony Levin album, this should be the one. Double Espresso features a great selection of material from a variety of Levin projects, plus a few surprises! (Ray Riethmeier, 4 Nov 02)


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