Oren Levine

#TunesOnTuesday re-shares an early (2024) demo of my song "No Ducks," which I recorded in LA a few weeks ago for my next album "After All These Years," coming your way early next year. #modernsongbook #songwriter #songwriting #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2026/10/27/t...

#TunesOnTuesday shares "Trip to Paradise," which I wrote as a song-a-day challenge in January 2025. We're recording Josh Nelson's beautiful arrangement this week with vocalist John Proulx! #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2026/10/06/t...

Please folks, listen to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

If you're in Los Angeles or know someone who is: I'm playing my first LA gig on October 15 to celebrate the recording of my next album. Birds of a Feather Jazz Lounge, 7 pm, $30. #JazzSky #livejazz #livemusic www.birdsofafeatherjazzlounge.com/event-detail...

Oct 4: "Time After Time" (not the Cyndi Lauper one) #ClocktoberMusic #JazzSky youtu.be/mGeeWacc3zc?...

Here's "Making Up for Lost Time" - title track of my 2018 album #ClocktoberMusic #JazzSky youtu.be/RdqIL_B29jM?...

#TunesOnTuesday (a day late) marks the end of summer in LA with a classic from famed film composer Michel Legrand "Once Upon a Summertime (La valse des lilas)" #jazzpiano #solopiano #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2026/09/23/t...

Stellar article from @jloeffler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...

#TunesOnTuesday shares "Chase the Wind," which I wrote (and performed) on a Windstar cruise in the Mediterranean this summer. We enjoyed the trip, and the song reflects that feeling. #WindstarCruises #WindSpirit #songwriter #songwriting ohljazz.com/2026/09/15/t...

#TunesOnTuesday answers the musical question "who was the first person to complain about a broken heart?" I wrote this during a fabulous workshop on Star Island led by the always inspiring Scarlet Keys and Susan Cattaneo #songwriting #songwriter ohljazz.com/2026/09/08/t...

#TunesOnTuesday shares the jazz classic "Stella By Starlight." Taking a break from a songwriting workshop on Star Island to re-learn this standard. #JazzSky #jazzstandard #jazzpiano ohljazz.com/2026/09/01/t...

AIPAC and many legacy American Jewish groups need to wake up. they are drastically out of touch with reality on the ground and ISRAELI opinion www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Thanks Bluesky - spent the last hour reading tributes to the late great Dolly Parton and listening to her songs.

May her memory be a blessing and her music an inspiration

Hi Google Maps, we have some notes... (On the SS17 road in central Italy between L'Aquila and Sulmona) #ai #navigation

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.

Inspiring message on Menorca: "Sine musica, nulla vita" ("Without music, there is no life")

🎶 "LHR, SFO If you have an hour or so There's a place that you can go There's a lounge" 🎶 youtu.be/M2RwJSu6C8I (Currently sitting in one at MIA) #JazzSky

#TunesOnTuesday shares "Harmony," one of the songs I'm recording in October for my next album. It's a new song in a classic American Songbook style. Tunes on Tuesday will return in September, after my August travels. #JazzSky #jazzpiano #songwriter #songwriting ohljazz.com/2026/08/04/t...

#TunesOnTuesday posts on Wednesday this week, sharing the Van Heusen/Burke standard "But Beautiful." Another milestone along the path of developing my vocal chops. I already have some ideas as to what to improve for next time ohljazz.com/2026/07/29/t... #JazzSky #jazzstandard

#TunesOnTuesday goes back to the Songbook with "Nice 'n' Easy," a swinging song made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1960. A great way to practice my phrasing! #JazzSky #jazzstandard ohljazz.com/2026/07/21/t...

Reminds me that my late father Mel saw Billie two months earlier at one of her last shows in Boston. He left some photos from the night ohljazz.com/2013/12/29/b...

#TunesOnTuesday marks Bastille Day with a silly song about how we often rely on a French phrase to start our meals in the USA. Bonne fête nationale! #songwriter #songwriting ohljazz.com/2026/07/14/t...

"The Democratic professional class had been overtaken by a cargo cult of temporarily embarrassed mathematicians, lazy theorists, and self-interested consultants." Nuanced @brianbeutler.bsky.social look at real reasons Dem voters gravitate to untested insurgents: www.offmessage.net/p/insurgency...

Thank you @404media.co, thank you www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

#TunesOnTuesday shares "My Country," which I wrote in a burst of inspiration on the morning of July 4 this year. #songwriting #songwriter #july4th ohljazz.com/2026/07/07/t...

As you were, America. youtu.be/eKlL5X0iuEI?...

Shabbat shalom! Here's a song for this week's Parashat Pinchas, celebrating the story of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asserted their rights to their father's inheritance. "What About Us" #torah #JewSky youtube.com/shorts/h8tLQ...

“The State Fair isn’t the only show on the Mall. Check out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.” www.popville.com/2026/07/stat...

#TunesOnTuesday marks USVI Emancipation Day (July 3) and US Independence Day (July 4) with "Be Free" written by me and Ardamus for the Lucky So & Sos in DC. #emancipationday #independenceday #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2026/06/30/t...

Magnificent performance by Cécile McLorin Salvant with a powerful arrangement by @darcyjamesargue.com Wait for what she does with the last note!

#TunesOnTuesday (a day late this week) shares a song from the Dave Frishberg book. "You Would Rather Have the Blues" speaks to me. Sometimes "when things are looking up, I'm looking down" #JazzSky #jazzsong #frishberg ohljazz.com/2026/06/24/t...

@repstaceyplaskett.blsky.social is the first person in a territory to be named a Ranking Member of a Select Committee and is serving her 6th term as a delegate to the House of Representatives from the U.S. Virgin Islands. #250to250

Posting #TunesOnTuesday a day late - I'm singing a standard for a change, the lovely "Day By Day" by Alex Stordahl and Paul Weston with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Trying to put my voice lessons to good use. #JazzSky #jazzstandard ohljazz.com/2026/06/16/t...

#LunchtimeLP Jazz pianist Jaki Byard was born 104 years ago today. He recorded To Them-To Us in 1981 in Milan.for Soul Note records. solo playing original tunes along with standards and inventive pop song interpretations. Highly recommend.

I found this story thanks to @miriamanzovin.bsky.social 's insightful (and delightful) commentary on the parsha. If you don't know her work you're missing out! www.instagram.com/reel/CuVNxLE...

RIP James Blood UImer. My obit for NPR Music.

#TunesOnTuesday goes back to my Torah Tunes project with "On the March Again," a song for this week's portion Beha'alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16) inspired by the Israelites' joourney across the desert #torah #JewSky ohljazz.com/2026/06/02/t...

#TunesOnTuesday shares a short musical celebration of the Caribbean roots of the great Sonny Rollins, who we lost this week on May 25. A medley of two Caribbean tunes he recorded: "Hold Em Joe" and "St. Thomas." ohljazz.com/2026/05/26/t... #JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #sonnyrollins

@marisakabas.bsky.social makes a clear case that generative AI is an attack on our agency. I like to think that my weekly posts of (AI-free) songs to LinkedIn are a small counter to the endless AI boosterism over there