Jay Leonhart

Jay Leonhart () er ein USA-amerikansk kontrabassist, songar og låtskrivar som har arbeidd innan jazz og popmusikk. Han har spelt med Judy Garland, Bucky Pizzarelli, Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra og Sting. Leonhart er kjent for den smarte låtskrivinga si, ofte krydra med tørr humor. Komposisjonane hans har vorte spelte inn av Blossom Dearie, Lee Konitz og Gary Burton. Poesien hans er publisert både i og utanfor musikalske samanhengar.

Karriere
Leonhart voks opp i ein musikalsk familie. Foreldra hans og seks søsken var alle musikkinteresserte. Alle spelte piano. I ein alder av sju år spelte han og den eldre bror hans Bill banjo, gitar, mandolin og bass. Dei spelte countrymusikk og jazz. I dei tidlege tenåra var dei på TV i Baltimore og turnerte landet rundt med banjo. Då Leonhart var fjorten, byrja han å spela kontrabass i Pier Five Dixieland Jazz Band i Baltimore.

Etter studium ved Peabody Institute (1946-1950) gjekk han på Berklee College of Music (1959-1961) og Advanced School of Contemporary Music i Toronto.

I byrjinga av 1960-åra arbeidde han med Mike Longo og Buddy Morrow. Som 21-åring flytta han til New York City for å starta karrieren sin. Han spelte turnékonsertar med storband, småband og songarar. I 1968 møtte og gifta han seg med songaren Donna Zier og busette seg i New York.

Leonhart har jobba med Louie Bellson, Urbie Green, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz, Marian McPartland, Gerry Mulligan, Mike Renzi, Don Sebesky, Chuck Wayne og Phil Woods, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Lou Marini og Tony Bennett. Han har jobba som studiomusikar i fleire sjangrar, for musikarar som James Taylor, Ozzy Osbourne og Queen Latifah. Han har òg spelt i duo med trombonisten Wycliffe Gordon.

Mellom 1975 og 1995 vart han kåra til den beste bassisten i platebransjen tre gonger av National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Leonhart har spelt inn mange soloalbum og har framført eit einmannsshow kalla «The Bass Lesson» om sitt liv i musikkbransjen. Han har turnert over heile verda i meir enn førti år.

Son og dotter hans, Michael og Carolyn, har ofte jobba med Steely Dan.

Diskografi

Som leiar
 Salamander Pie med Mike Renzi (DMP, 1983)
 There's Gonna Be Trouble med Joe Beck (Sunnyside, 1984)
 The Double Cross (Sunnyside, 1988)
 Life Out on the Road: A Jazz Journey (Prestige Elite, 1990)
 Live at Fat Tuesday's: May 13–15, 1993 (DRG, 1993)
 Four Duke med Joe Beck, Gary Burton, Terry Clarke (LaserLight, 1995)
 Sensitive to the Touch: The Music of Harold Arlen med Ken Peplowski (Groove Jams, 1998)
 Live at the 1996 Floating Jazz Festival med Bucky Pizzarelli, John Bunch (Chiaroscuro, 1998)
 Great Duets (Chiaroscuro, 1999)
 Galaxies and Planets (Sons of Sound, 2001)
 Rodgers & Leonhart (Sons of Sound, 2002)
 Tony's Tunes med John Bunch, Bucky Pizzarelli (Chiaroscuro, 2003)
 Fly Me to the Moon (Venus, 2004)
 Cool (Sons of Sound, 2004)
 Lost Songs of 1936 med Bucky Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman (Victoria, 2006)

Med the New York Trio
 Blues in the Night (Venus, 2001)
 The Things We Did Last Summer (Venus, 2002)
 Love You Madly (Venus, 2003)
 Stairway to the Stars (Venus, 2004)
 Begin the Beguine (Venus, 2006)
 Thou Swell (Venus, 2007)
 Always (Venus, 2008)
 Stardust (Venus, 2009)

Som gjesteartist
Med Joe Beck
 Relaxin (DMP, 1983)
 Friends (DMP, 1984)
 Back to Beck (DMP, 1988)

Med Louie Bellson
 Louie Bellson and His Jazz Orchestra (Musicmasters, 1987)
 Hot (Musicmasters, 1988)
 East Side Suite (Musicmasters, 1989)
 Airmail Special (Musicmasters, 1990)
 Peaceful Thunder (Jazz Heritage, 1993)

Med Barbara Carroll
 From the Beginning (United Artists, 1977)
 Live at the Carlyle (DRG, 1991)
 This Heart of Mine (DRG, 1994)
 Everything I Love (DRG, 1995)
 Live at Birdland (Harbinger, 2004)
 Sentimental Mood (Venus, 2006)
 I Wished on the Moon (Venus, 2007)
 Something to Live For (Harbinger, 2010)
 How Long Has This Been Going On? (Harbinger, 2011)

Med Meredith D'Ambrosio
 Shadowland (Sunnyside, 1993)
 Echo of a Kiss (Sunnyside, 1998)
 Love Is for the Birds (Sunnyside, 2002)

Med Michael Feinstein
 Recorded Live at Feinstein's at the Regency (Concord Jazz, 2000)
 Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway (Concord Jazz, 2000)
 Fly Me to the Moon (DuckHole, 2010)

Med Eddie Higgins
 Music of Jobim: Speaking of Love (Venus, 2000)
 Don't Smoke in Bed (Venus, 2000)
 Bewitched (Venus, 2001)
 A Time for Love (Nola, 2002)
 Moonlight Becomes You (Venus, 2003)
 Dear Old Stockholm (Venus, 2003)
 Dear Old Stockholm Vol. 2 (Venus, 2003)
 If Dreams Come True (Venus, 2004)
 My Funny Valentine (Venus, 2005)
 Christmas Songs (Venus, 2006)
 It's Magic Vol. 1 (Venus, 2007)
 It's Magic Vol. 2 (Venus, 2007)
 A Fine Romance (Venus, 2007)
 A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening (Venus, 2007)
 Secret Love (Venus, 2008)
 A Handful of Stars (Venus, 2009)
 Portraits of Love (Venus, 2009)
 Ballad Higgins (Venus, 2015)
 Standard Higgins (Venus, 2015)

Med Peggy Lee
 Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues (Musicmasters, 1988)
 The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring (Musical Heritage Society, 1990)
 Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen (Angel, 1993)

Med Maureen McGovern
 Naughty Baby (CBS, 1989)
 Baby I'm Yours (BMG, 1992)
 A Long and Winding Road (PS Classics, 2008)

Med Gerry Mulligan
 Walk on the Water (DRG 1980)
 Little Big Horn (GRP 1983)
 Soft Lights & Sweet Music (Concord Jazz, 1986)

Med Harold Ousley
 The Kid! (Cobblestone, 1972)
 The People's Groove (Muse, 1977)
 Sweet Double Hipness (Muse, 1980)

Med andre
 Benny Bailey, The Satchmo Legacy (Enja, 2000)
 Kenny Barron, Super Standard (Venus, 2004)
 Terence Blanchard, Clockers (Columbia, 1995)
 Teresa Brewer, American Music Box Vol. 2 (Red Baron, 1993)
 John Bunch, Bucky Pizzarelli, NY Swing (LRC, 1992)
 Ann Hampton Callaway, After Ours (Denon, 1997)
 Canadian Brass, James Galway, Noel (RCA Victor, 1994)
 Kvitka Cisyk, Kvitka (KMC, 1980)
 Steve Clayton, Love Is Said in Many Ways (Stash, 1991)
 Cynthia Crane, Mike Renzi, Smoky Bar Songs for the No Smoking Section (Lookoutjazz, 1994)
 Cynthia Crane, Cynthia's in Love (Lookoutjazz, 1997)
 Queen Latifah, The Dana Owens Album (A&M, 2004)
 Roger Daltrey, Rocks in the Head (Atlantic, 1992)
 Blossom Dearie, Positively Volume VII (Daffodil, 1983)
 Blossom Dearie, Mike Renzi, Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Daffodil, 1991)
 Donald Fagen, Sunken Condos (Reprise, 2012)
 Carlos Franzetti, The Jazz Kamerata (Chesky 2005)
 Robert Gordon, Bad Boy (One Way/BMG 1997)
 Wycliffe Gordon, This Rhythm on My Mind (Bluesback, 2006)
 Urbie Green, Green Power (Project 3, 1971)
 Corky Hale, Harp Beat (Stash, 1985)
 Jane Harvey, The Other Side of Sondheim (Atlantic, 1988)
 Skitch Henderson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Legends (Arbors, 2003)
 Nicole Henry, Teach Me Tonight (Venus, 2005)
 Per Husby, If You Could See Me Now (Gemini, 1996)
 Dick Hyman, Swing Is Here (Reference, 1996)
 Dick Hyman, You're My Everything (Venus, 2012)
 Garland Jeffreys, Don't Call Me Buckwheat (RCA, 1991)
 Etta Jones, At Last (Muse, 1995)
 Hank Jones, Arigato (Progressive, 1989)
 Morgana King, Portraits (Muse, 1984)
 Peggy King, Peggy King Sings Jerome Kern (Stash, 1985)
 Lee Konitz, Dovetail (Sunnyside, 1985)
 Karin Krog, Georgie Fame, On a Misty Night (Odin, 2018)
 Charles Kuralt, Loonis McGlohon, North Carolina Is My Home (Piedmont Airlines, 1985)
 Barbara Lea, Bob Dorough, Dick Sudhalter, Hoagy's Children (Audiophile, 1983)
 Carole Laure, Alibis (RCA Victor/Saravah, 1979)
 Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Bande Originale Du Film Fantastica (Saravah, 1980)
 Carolyn Leonhart, Steal the Moon (Sunnyside, 2000)
 Michael Leonhart, The Painted Lady Suite (Sunnyside, 2018)
 Marian McPartland, Steely Dan, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan (Jazz Alliance, 2005)
 Bette Midler, Some People's Lives (Atlantic, 1990)
 Glenn Miller, In the Digital Mood (GRP, 1983)
 Max Morath, Jonah Man and Other Songs of the Bert Williams Era (Vanguard, 1976)
 Max Morath, Jonah Man: A Tribute to Bert Williams (Vanguard, 1996)
 Michael Moriarty, Sweet 'n' Gritty (Disques Swing, 1991)
 Gerry Mulligan, Walk on the Water (DRG, 1980)
 Mark Murphy, Lucky to Be Me (HighNote, 2002)
 Jeanne Napoli, Jeanne (Vigor, 1976)
 Gerry Niewood, Share My Dream (DMP, 1985)
 Anita O'Day, S Wonderful Big Band Concert 1985 (Emily, 1985)
 Graham Parker, Steady Nerves (Elektra, 1985)
 Houston Person, Christmas with Houston Person and Friends (Muse, 1994)
 Peter, Paul & Mary, No Easy Walk to Freedom (Mercury, 1986)
 Bucky Pizzarelli, Five for Freddie (Arbors, 2006)
 Bucky Pizzarelli, Plays the Music of Jerome Kern (LRC, 2006)
 David Pomeranz, Time to Fly (Decca, 1971)
 Jim Pugh, Eijiro Nakagawa, Just Us (E'nJ, 2006)
 Leon Redbone, Any Time (Blue Thumb, 2001)
 Trudy Richards, Manhattan Serenade (Beekman Place, 1990)
 Earl Rose, Take My Breath Away (Sony, 1997)
 Annie Ross, Music Is Forever (DRG, 1996)
 Cynthia Sayer, String Swing (Jazzology, 2000)
 Michel Sardaby, Night Blossom (DIW, 1990)
 Don Sebesky, Full Cycle (Paddle Wheel, 1983)
 Don Sebesky, Moving Lines (Doctor Jazz, 1985)
 Carly Simon,My Romance (Arista, 1990)
 Paul Simon, Songs from The Capeman (Warner Bros., 1997)
 Tessa Souter, Nights of Key Largo (Venus, 2008)
 Grady Tate, From the Heart (Half Note, 2006)
 James Taylor, Never Die Young (Columbia, 1988)
 Mel Torme, Mel Torme and Friends (Finesse, 1981)
 Mel Torme, Encore at Marty's New York (Flair, 1982)
 Marlene VerPlanck, A Warmer Place (Audiophile, 1982)
 Marlene VerPlanck, I Like to Sing! (Audiophile, 1984)
 Was (Not Was), Born to Laugh at Tornadoes (Geffen, 1983)
 Chuck Wayne, Traveling (Progressive, 1980)
 Fred Wesley, It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Sons of Sound, 2006)
 Iris Williams, I'm Glad There Is You (1995)

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