An Evening of Blues and Jazz: The Ben Levin Quartet Featuring Art Gore

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm UTC-04:00

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An Evening of Blues and Jazz: The Ben Levin Quartet Featuring Art Gore
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Ben Levin — piano/vocals
Art Gore — drums
Walter Cash Jr. — bass
Joe Polen — tenor saxophone
Ben Levin is a pianist/vocalist based in Cincinnati, OH. Ben has released five albums on the Vizztone Label Group and has four Blues Music Award nominations, including best piano player of the year.
"Ben's 2024 release "Ben Levin Presents A Holiday Blues Revue", featured collaborations with blues legends Lil' Ed, Lil' Jimmy Reed, and Sonny Hill, as well as Grammy nominated vocalist Candice Ivory. The album climbed into the top ten on Living Blues radio charts, and the single "Elf Boogie" received daily airplay on Sirius XM radio during the holiday season.
Ben maintains a busy touring schedule and has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Brazil, and Japan.
Art Gore was born into a family of musicians, which began his early exposure to music. By age sixteen, he was playing professionally. After graduating high school, Art attended Berklee College of Music and was drafted into the armed forces for two years. His musical development continued by playing with the First Armored Division Band and orchestra and leading his groups.
After serving in the military, Art attended the Berklee College of Music, where he studied with renowned drum instructor Alan Dawson and later at the New England Conservatory of Music under Vic Firth. In 1972, Art joined Dr. Lonnie Smith, leading to traveling and recording with the Grammy-winning guitarist and vocalist George Benson.
Upon leaving George Benson's band, Art began working with Lonnie Liston Smith. Art's recordings with Lonnie were some of the most important of his early career. Many jazz enthusiasts consider one of the recordings, "Expansions" (RCA 1975), a jazz-fusion classic. "Voodoo Woman," one of the compositions that Art recorded with Lonnie, is included in the Recommended Recordings of the Decade for the Smithsonian Collection of Jazz in the Seventies.
A $15 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set, if the total for beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum.
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Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.
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