Hank Levy (Henry Jacob Levy;27 September 1927 September 18, 2001) was an American jazz composer and saxophonist whose works often employed unusual time signatures. He is best known as a big band composer for Stan Kenton and the Don Ellis Orchestra,as well as the founder and long-time director of Towson University’s Jazz Program.Levy was born in Baltimore. His interest in odd meters pre-dated Dave Brubeck's Time Out album. He studied composition with George Thaddeus Jones at Catholic University in Washington, DC,and became interested in odd meters through their use by such composers as Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel,and Igor Stravinsky. He was also a particularly good composer of counterpoint, which can be heard in such compositions as Passacaglia and Fugue recorded by Don Ellis on Live At Monterey and Quintessence (performed, but not recorded by, Stan Kenton