Saxophonist Jed Levy has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene for over 30 years. In addition to performing and recording as a leader the SteepleChase and Reservoir labels, he has had long standing working relationships with such jazz luminaries as Jaki Byard (a musical mentor, 3 recordings and countless performances), Don Patterson, Jack McDuff (valuable road experience), Ron McClure (2 CDs and ongoing performances), and Headhunters drummer Mike Clark (2 CD's and new projects in the works.)  
He has also been fortunate to have worked with, Junior Mance, Eddie Henderson, Jack Walrath, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Shirley Scott, Kevin Mahogany, Gene Bertoncini, Don Friedman, Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller, Chico O'Farrill, Attilla Zollar, Groove Holmes, Tom Harrell, and many others. 
Levy has toured Europe, Japan, China and South America as a leader and appeared at several international jazz festivals as well as leading bands at such New York venues as Dizzy's JALC, Sweet Basil, Smalls, Mezzrow, Blue Note, Birdland, Visiones and Zinno.

In 2012,The Jed Levy Quartet was selected by Jazz at Lincoln Center to tour for the US Department of State as part of their "Rhythm Road" project and the Quartet embarked on a 5 week tour of South and Central America. A few years later, this same group did a 16 city tour of The Peoples Republic of China.
Diversity has been the key to Levy's success on the New York scene. A recent week found him moving from a concert with the Cab Calloway Orchestra to a night with Mike Clark and Charley Hunter at the Knitting Factory, to the Apollo Theater with the Temptations and the Four Tops, to Birdland with Chico O'Farill's Afro Cuban Orchestra.
In his presentations as a leader, as well as in his compositions, Levy tries to incorporate these varied musical experiences. His compositions have been recorded by such artists as the Headhunters, Don Friedman, Eddie Henderson, and Mike Clark
His CD's "One Night at the Kitano", "Gateway" "Evans Explorations ",and "The Italian Suite" on Steeplechase are receiving critical acclaim. 
Jed's recent projects have included Peter Leitch's New Life Orchestra with a new double CD released in January 2021, that has garnered many excellent reviews. A co-led quartet with British guitarist Phil Robson which debuted at the 2019 London Jazz Festival and toured Europe and did gigs in the US including Yoshi's in California and Birdland in NYC.
His bandmates for this Soapbox Gallery performance, drummer Clarence Penn and bassist Peter Slavov are also members of the group with Robson, hence the title of 3/4tet, as Mr. Robson would have joined them if not for the lockdown.

Clarence Penn- Drums Peter Slavov-acoustic bass  

Clarence Penn is one of the busiest jazz drummers in the world, a leader of multiple bands, a composer, a prolific producer, and an educator.
Since 1991, when he arrived in New York City, Penn has placed his unique blend of mega-chops, keen intellect, and heady musicianship at the service of a staggering array of A-list artists—a chronological short-list includes Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Betty Carter, Stanley Clarke, Steps Ahead, Makoto Ozone, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Maria Schneider, Luciana Souza, Richard Galliano, and Fourplay. Penn’s impressive discography includes several hundred studio albums (including the Grammy-winning recordings 34th and Lex by Randy Brecker and Concert in the Garden and Sky Blue by Maria Schneider) representing a 360-spectrum of jazz expression, and he’s toured extensively throughout the United States, the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia. He’s composed music for films and commercials, and produced tracks for numerous singers in the pop and alternative arenas. He earned a “Ten Best of 1997” accolade from the New York Times for his first leader recording, Penn’s Landing.
A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was a protégé of Ellis Marsalis, Penn is active as an educator and drum clinician. From 2004 to 2012, he taught on the faculty of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. He’s also served on faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, Italy, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Intensive Jazz Institute.

Peter Slavov is a New York City-based double bassist, composer, session musician, arranger and educator. Since he began playing professionally in the mid-1990s, Peter has performed at some of the most prestigious venues and festivals in more than 40 countries on 5 continents.
After graduating from Berklee in 2002, Peter Slavov has performed and recorded with world-renowned artists, such as: Joe Lovano, Quincy Jones,George Garzone, Chucho Valdes, Danilo Perez, Kevin Mahogany and Simon Shaheen, among many others.
Peter is a member Grammy award-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano’s Classic Quartet and Lovano’s Us Five band. In 2012, Us Five received the Award for Best Small Group by the Jazz Journalists Association of America. 
Peter Slavov is also featured on the last album by Joe Lovano and Us Five - "Cross Culture", which was released on the historic Blue Note label.
Peter Slavov has performed with twenty seven-time Grammy award-winning producer/composer/arranger Quincy Jones’ Global Gumbo Project. 
Peter has also recorded for Jones. He is featured on pianist Alfredo Rodriguez’ GRAMMY®-nominated album The Invasion Parade , which Quincy Jones produced.