Leo Sherman

Leo Sherman: Tonewheel

by Dan Bilawsky
December 9, 2019

Bassist Leo Sherman knows a thing or two about turns in tone connected to life, time, language and music. Born in Russia, in a repressive, antisemitic atmosphere that eventually drove his family from their homeland, he overcame several layers of adversity some 5,000 miles away, where he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. There, he became fluent in English and Spanish, developed a passion for music, flirted with a career in globalism, and eventually channeled his efforts into a life in ...