Jazz Articles about Jake Leckie

Jake Leckie: The Abode

by Chris Mosey
March 6, 2019

Bassist Jake Leckie, born in Boston but currently living in Los Angeles, describes the eight songs on this, his first album, as “a meditation on migration, understanding and empathy." He says they pay tribute to the people and places that have contributed to his identity and are intended to evoke a sense of place and home--his very own abode. He took the title from Alice Coltrane's concept of heaven, the Supreme Abode, as described in her memoir, ...