Watch and listen

About Hank

• Play A Head of Time: Ahead of Time, the Hank Levy documentaryOpens on YouTube

  Dick Slade’s feature-length documentary about Hank (Audio Visual Artist’s Productions). The Baltimore Sun and Towson date it to 2000; the uploader’s description says 1999.

• Play Sweet Georgia Schwartz (Brown), arranged by Hank Levy, with my voice overOpens on YouTube

  My October 2026 video: the 1989 Towson recording of Hank’s arrangement, under narration about the recovered interview.

Don Ellis Orchestra

• Play Chain Reaction · Don Ellis OrchestraOpens on YouTube

  13/8, grouped 3+3+2+2+3. Hank wrote it for Ellis’s band with strings; “Don dug it and kept it in the book for the next nine years.”

• Play Rock Odyssey · Don Ellis Orchestra, Fillmore 1970Opens on YouTube

  7/4 and 12/4. Recorded on Don Ellis at Fillmore.

• Play Samba Bajada · Don EllisOpens on YouTube

  9/4. Recorded on Tears of Joy.

Stan Kenton Orchestra

• Play Chiapas · Stan Kenton, Live at Redlands UniversityOpens on YouTube

  5/4. Hank: “the first piece of mine ever recorded by the Kenton band … the first piece I wrote for Stan.”

• Play Time for a Change · Stan KentonOpens on YouTube

  Hank’s “experiment to write an odd-meter standard.” Recorded on Kenton ’76.

• Play Decoupage · Stan Kenton, Kenton ’76Opens on YouTube

  5/4.

• Play Pegasus · Stan KentonOpens on YouTube

  6/8. Recorded on Journey Into Capricorn.

Towson State ensembles, under Hank

• Play Hank’s Opener · Towson State, 1972 double LPOpens on YouTube

  7/4 and 14/8. From the program’s first LP.

• Play Indra · Towson State, 1972 double LPOpens on YouTube

  9/4.

• Play 2 + 2 = 5 · Towson State College Jazz Ensemble, 1975Opens on YouTube

  The full 1975 album.

• Play Chain Reaction · Towson State, 1979Opens on YouTube

  The 1979 band included future pros Drew Gress and Ellery Eskelin.

• Play Whiplash · Towson State, 1979Opens on YouTube

  Hank’s 1973 chart (7/4, then 14/8), played by his own students. About 100,000 views, one of the two most-viewed videos in the playlist.

• Play A Peek into a New Time Zone · Towson State, 1989Opens on YouTube

  14/4, grouped 2+2+3+3+2+2. My favorite Hank composition.

U.S. Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors · The Legacy of Hank Levy (1997)

• Play Passacaglia & Fugue · Jazz AmbassadorsOpens on YouTube

  3/4 passacaglia over a 4/4 fugue. “The first tune of mine that Don Ellis recorded.”

• Play A Time for Love · Jazz AmbassadorsOpens on YouTube

  Hank’s ballad arrangement in the Kenton trombone style. Hank recalled Kenton recording it for his last album; that performance surfaced on the archival CD A Time for Love (Tantara).

Towson State Jazz Ensemble, 1989

• Play Abovo · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud
• Play A New Time Piece · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud
• Play Down Home Cookin’ · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud
• Play Stella by Starlight (arr. Hank Levy) · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud
• Play Peek into a New Time Zone · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud
• Play Sweet Georgia Schwartz · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud
• Play Venzuwailin · Towson 1989Opens on SoundCloud