Alan Lewine is a bassist and composer currently living in the Philadelphia region and the founder of Owlsong Productions. Lewine has performed and recorded all over the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Primarily a jazz musician, his influences and experience include all forms of music – medieval Sephardic to afropop as well as all styles of jazz and classical. Lewine began playing string bass in 1978. He studied piano as a child, and later studied composition and arranging. A self-taught bassist, Lewine learned from the mentorship of Milt Hinton early in his career. Other important bass mentors have been Ray Brown, John Clayton, Lynn Seaton, Leroy Vinnegar and Bruce Gertz. Lewine’s first recordings were released in the mid-1980s and have received excellent reviews. Lewine has worked with many of the great names in jazz over the years, including Eddie Daniels, Kenny Davern, Richie Cole, Joe Henderson, Clifford Jordan, Henry Threadgill, Vinnie Golia, Anita O’Day, Sheila Jordan, Mose Allison, Butch Miles, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Roy Hargrove, and old masters like Gus Johnson, Sweets Edison, Mickey Roker, Stephane Grapelli and many others. Lewine minored in music composition as an undergrad and has also studied traditional Ghanaian (Ewe) percussion and performed with Obo Addy and Balinese gamelan with I Nyoman Suadin, flamenco with Julián Vaquero and Victor Monge, and traditional country blues with Johnny Never.lgium, and the Netherlands as well as throughout the United States.