just launched:
Hardcover with dust jacket
Big news—the hardcover edition of I Speak Music: Stories from My Improbable Life has arrived!
Signed copies are now available to order directly from my website HERE. If you’ve been waiting for the hardcover version, this is the one to get.
*To celebrate the hardcover release, we’re offering 10% OFF everything on my website — books, music, and more — for a limited time. Use code MUSIC at checkout.
Thank you, as always, for your love and support.
my musical memoir "I speak music" out now
Available on Amazon and Kindle eBook.
Howard Levy delivers a memoir as inventive and uncompromising as his music. With a storyteller’s eye and an improviser’s ear, he charts the path of a life built on risk, curiosity, and the relentless pursuit of sound.
Across 88 vivid, interlocking stories spanning 450 pages and covering almost 70 years, Howard opens a window into the making of an artist and the art of making a life in music. He shares the unlikely serendipities that shaped him and led him to collaborate with Dolly Parton, Béla Fleck, Tito Puente, Donald Fagen, Jack Bruce, Jerry Garcia, Kenny Loggins, Paquito D’Rivera and many more.
You’ll hear about adventures with these legends as well as a slew of unsung heroes, and come along on the many wild detours and unexpected turns that shaped the ride.
“My solos are on paper this time. Took me long enough.”
With a wonderful introduction by the great Ben Sidran (musician, composer, and author), this book is a rare, intimate portrait of a modern virtuoso and musical polymath. Signed copies are now available in both hardcover and paperback.
Concerto Premiere
My newly composed concerto, "Eastern European Harmonica and Piano Concerto for Single Soloist", for full orchestra, will be premiered in November of 2026 in Destin, FL with Sinfonia Gulf Coast, conducted by Demetrius Fuller. (date TBA)
This concerto features me equally on both instruments, sometimes simultaneously. It a highly personal excursion through the exotic tonalities and complex rhythms of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek music, and more. Of course, expect improvised solo cadenzas and many virtuosic orchestral passages as well.
I hope you can join us and share this incredible experience with me.
Howard
