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Barry Roth of Huntington Woods, one of Pritz's former classmates at Detroit Henry Ford High School, points out that "one of the most touching things in Arthur's career was his friendship with Levey. Then Stan mentioned to Arthur that he used to be a jazz drummer." That modest description wasn't quite accurate. It turns out Levey had been a giant in the music business — one of the greatest bebop drummers of all time. He was the first white drum- mer to make sense of the intricacies of bebop in the 1940s. The colorful Levey also was a boxer who once appeared on the same bill as Detroit heavyweight champion Joe Louis. "One day, Stan just happened to mention to me that he used to live with Miles Davis, who was a famous [jazz] instrumentalist," recalls Pritz, who graduated from Michigan State University and worked in TV broad- casting in Cadillac, Mich., before heading to California to launch the Tubeworks Video Co. "I thought, `Wow, how did this guy know Miles Davis? I have to dig into this further and find out more about Stan."' Detective Work Using his video prowess, Pritz pro- duced and directed a DVD about Levey's life, titled Stan Levey: "The Original Original" — The Jazz Bop Pioneer Tells His Story. "It's a documentary for aficionados of bebop music, the modern jazz era and for anyone who just loves a good story," said Pritz. The DVD includes appearances by Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Watts, Quincy Jones, Bill Holman and Lalo Schifrin, plus observations by Charlie "Bird" Parker. Levey began his career with Gillespie at the age of 17 for $18 per week. (Gillespie dubbed him "the Original Original.") He also played with Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman (who fired him for being "too young"), Woody Herman, Art Tatum, George Shearing, Stan Getz, Errol Garner, Billy May and Nelson Riddle, among others. Levey took part in about 2,000 recording sessions, accompanying Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Vic Damone, King Cole, Sarah Vaughn and the Supremes. He per- formed in orchestras for more than 300 movie soundtracks and about 3,000 TV shows, including Batman, Mission Impossible, Mannix, The Munsters and The Addams Family. A set of his drums is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Levey narrates most of the 1 hour 53 minute DVD that took Pritz a year and half to produce. The drummer grew up in Philadelphia, where his father sold cars and promoted boxing matches. Levey dropped out of school, cleaned his father's cars and boxed semiprofessionally, while experiment- PERFECT FRIENDSHIP on page 49