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KEY WEST — Capt. Scott Leon’s team Rock Star staged a remarkable comeback Saturday in the final day of the World Sailfish Championship, and took home the $100,000 top prize.

The team began the day in fifth place, but won on earliest time of final release after three boats ended the tournament with 15 sailfish releases.

Team Rock Star added six sailfish releases Saturday to its nine during the first two days, releasing the 15th sail at 10:21 a.m.

It wasn’t easy from there, however. The Miami-based team, which includes boat owner Jorge Piedra, Jorge Ramirez, Rudy Espinosa, Rudy Espinosa Jr., Ovi Vento, Leo Lombera, Henry Jimenez and Kyle Sherman, endured several nerve-wracking hours after team Jichi reported its 15th release about an hour later.

Team Jichi, which includes Luis Isaias, Ricky Querejeta, Anibal Moya, Neil Orange Jonathan Barber and Capt. Ricky Linder, came in second.

Team Vitamin Sea Too finished third. The team includes skipper Mike Dinnen, Tim Maddock, John Hubert, Mike Reisert, Chris Zidar, and John Kreig.

Tournament director Capt. Mike Weinhofer reported the event attracted more than 800 anglers fishing on 101 boats, releasing a record 558 sailfish.

Story courtesy Keys News.

Stuart, FL – (April 18, 2008) The RiverWalk Jazz series is pleased to announce that Mike Levine will be performing on the beautiful RiverWalk stage, Sunday May 4 starting at 1 p.m.  The RiverWalk Jazz Series has become a ‘hot’ favorite with jazz fans up and down the Treasure Coast.  Since November 2006, jazz fans have flocked to the free concert by almost every mode of transportation, car, shuttle, bus, motorcycle, boat and even segway.  Each month hundreds of music aficionados come to historic downtown Stuart to listen to first class jazz in a beautiful waterfront setting.

Pianist Mike Levine is a man of many talents whose career is a blend of different aspects of music. He attended the University of Miami where he studied piano with Vince Maggio. There he formed his first group with Billy Ross and they released their first album “That Summer Something” which featured jazz legend Pat Metheny as a guest artist.  Mike wrote the majority of the bands compositions and earned national recognition for them, staying in the top ten jazz charts for six seeks.  Subsequent releases also did very well. 

Mike can be found on a number of jazz celebrity albums such a Michael Bolton, Jaco Pastorius, Less DeMerle, Ed Calles and Julio Iglesias.  He often performs locally in some of South Florida’s top jazz and blues venues as well as some of the most renowned jazz festivals such as the Syracuse and Montreal Jazz Festivals.  Mike has recently released another CD “From the Heart” which features both Hiram Bullock and Ed Calle as guest artists.  Cd’s will be available at the concert.

“We haven’t featured a jazz pianist for several months now, so we are very excited to have him come and perform for us. I think our fans are going to love him and be thrilled that were featuring such an accomplished jazz artist.” Jim Chrulski, City of Stuart Assistant Parks and Recreation Director.

For more info about Mike Levine, go to www.rhombus-records.com or www.mikelevinemusic.com

For more information about each of the artists go to www.riverwalkjazzseries.com. Free to the public the RiverWalk Jazz Series takes place in a beautiful outdoor setting along the St. Lucie River. The RiverWalk Stage is located along the St. Lucie River boardwalk at the end of St. Lucie Ave in historic downtown Stuart. The RiverWalk Jazz Series is a public/private venture between the City of Stuart, The Downtown Business Association, Stuart MainStreet, Stuart Heritage, Hi Mom Productions and is completely underwritten by the Stuart News. The RiverWalk Jazz series of concerts take place on the first Sunday of the month between 1-4 p.m.