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Joy
By Jay Leonhart
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Bass Aboard A Plane; Joy; Playboy Club; Gasparo; Momma Don’t You Think; Tulips; Life Out On The Road;
Doublecross; Robert Frost; Very Few; For Real.
Jamile: If You Could See Me Now
by Martin McFie
Jamile grew up in Cachoeira do Sul (South Falls), a small town in Brazil towards the border with Uruguay. Her supportive family had no particular interest in music. Imagine her surprise, then, at finding her twenty-something self launching this debut album at Gianni Valenti's Birdland Theater in New York City. After completing her studies ...
Don't You Wish?
By Jay Leonhart
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Playboy Club; Don't You Wish; Curtains; I Got the Blues; Tulips;
Schadenfreude; Change My Occupation; Life in the Middle Ages; Missin' Rb
Blues; They're Coming to Get Me.
Don't You Wish
By Jay Leonhart
Label: Chancellor Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Playboy Club; Don’t You Wish; Curtains; I Got the Blues;
Tulips; Schadenfreude; Change my Occupation; The Middle Ages;
Missin’ RB Blues; They’re Coming to Get Me
Jay Leonhart: bass, vocals, composer/lyricist, arranger, producer
Tomoko Ohno: piano
Ten Men
by C. Michael Bailey
My unscientific estimate contends that there are three female vocalists for every male vocalist. This does not mean that there are no male vocalists out there as evidenced by these ten examples. They just take a little longer to accumulate. Jay Leonhart and Tomoko Ohno Don't You Wish Chancellor Music
Michael Leonhart: Surfing on an Orchestral Wave
by Ludovico Granvassu
If one were to find an answer to the age-old nature or nurture" debate, s/he would have to look no further than The Painted Lady Suite [Sunnyside Records]. Listening to the stunning debut album by the Michael Leonhart Orchestra makes it clear that major achievements are only possible when nature and nurture are well integrated and ...
Jay Leonhart: Don't You Wish
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
After experimenting with other instruments, a phase described in the title track, Don't You Wish," Jay Leonhart locked onto the bass at the age of 13. Later inspired and mentored by the legendary Ray Brown, he began his stellar career which included playing with icons Duke Ellington, Judy Garland, Buddy Rich, Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and ...
Roger Kellaway Trio: New Standards Vol. 3
by Dan Bilawsky
Trumpeter Carl Saunders is best known for his contributions to jazz orchestras, having put his mighty horn to good use for Stan Kenton, Bill Holman, Maynard Ferguson, Benny Goodman, Gerald Wilson, and numerous other big band leaders of note over the past half-century. Yet his work as a composer may end up being his lasting legacy. ...
Jay Leonhart: Don't You Wish?
by Patrick Burnette
Jay Leonhart has been active as a jazz bassist from the 1960s, and since 1983's Salamander Pie (Digital Music Productions, 1990), he has, from time to time, headlined records as that rara avis, the singer-songwriter who plays acoustic bass rather than acoustic guitar. (one example: Goodbye, Miami" from the debut--it sounds more prescient day by day.) ...
Take Five with Chuck Redd
by Chuck Redd
About Chuck Redd Chuck Redd is an internationally well-known performer on both drums and vibraphone. He began his career when he joined the Charlie Byrd Trio at the age of 21. He also became a member of the Great Guitars (Barney Kessel, Byrd, and Herb Ellis.) To his credit are 25 European tours and six ...