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Jay Leonhart (born December 6, 1940) is an American double bassist, singer, and songwriter who has worked in jazz and popular music. He has performed with , , , , and Sting. Leonhart is noted for his clever songwriting, often laced with . His compositions have been recorded by , , and . His poetry is published both in, and outside of, the venue of song.

Career
Leonhart grew up in a musical family. His parents and six siblings were all musically inclined. Everyone played the piano. By the age of seven, he and his older brother Bill were playing banjo, guitar, mandolin, and bass. They played country music and jazz. In their early teens, they were on TV in Baltimore and toured the country performing on banjo. When Leonhart was fourteen he started playing double bass in the Pier Five Dixieland Jazz Band in Baltimore.

After studying at the Peabody Institute (1946–1950), he attended the Berklee College of Music (1959–1961) and the Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto.

In the early 1960s, he worked with and . At twenty one, he moved to New York City to start his career. He played road gigs with big bands, small bands, and singers. In 1968, he met and married a singer named Donna Zier and settled in New York.

Leonhart has worked with , , Jim Hall, , Marian McPartland, , , , , and ., , , , and . He has worked as a studio musician in several genres, for musicians such as , , and . He has also played in a duo with trombonist .

Between 1975 and 1995, he was named Most Valuable Bassist in the recording industry three times by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Leonhart has recorded many solo albums and has performed a one-man show called "The Bass Lesson" about his life in the music business. He has toured worldwide for more than forty years.

His son and daughter, and , have worked often with .

Discography
As Bassist and Singer
  • Salamander Pie with (DMP, 1983)
  • There's Gonna Be Trouble with (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 (, 1993)
  • Galaxies and Planets (Sons of Sound, 2001)
  • Rodgers & Leonhart (Sons of Sound, 2002)
  • Cool (Sons of Sound, 2004)
  • Joy (Sunnyside Communications, 2019)

As leader on mainly instrumental albums
  • Four Duke with Joe Beck, Gary Burton, Terry Clarke (LaserLight, 1995)
  • ''At Duke's Place" with Jane Jarvis (Progressive Records, 1996)
  • Sensitive to the Touch: The Music of Harold Arlen with Ken Peplowski (Groove Jams, 1998)
  • Live at the 1996 Floating Jazz Festival with Bucky Pizzarelli, John Bunch (Chiaroscuro, 1998)
  • Great Duets (Chiaroscuro, 1999)
  • Tony's Tunes with John Bunch, Bucky Pizzarelli (Chiaroscuro, 2003)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (Venus, 2004)
  • Lost Songs of 1936 with Bucky Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman (Victoria, 2006)

With 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)

As guest
With
  • Relaxin (DMP, 1983)
  • Friends (DMP, 1984)
  • Back to Beck (DMP, 1988)

With

  • 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)

With

  • 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)

With Meredith D'Ambrosio

  • Shadowland (Sunnyside, 1993)
  • Echo of a Kiss (Sunnyside, 1998)
  • Love Is for the Birds (Sunnyside, 2002)

With 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)

With

  • 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)

With

  • Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues (Musicmasters, 1988)
  • (Musical Heritage Society, 1989)
  • (Angel, 1993)

With

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

With

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

With

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

With others

  • , The Satchmo Legacy (Enja, 2000)
  • , Super Standard (Venus, 2004)
  • Terence Blanchard, Clockers (Columbia, 1995)
  • , American Music Box Vol. 2 (Red Baron, 1993)
  • John Bunch, Bucky Pizzarelli, NY Swing (LRC, 1992)
  • Ann Hampton Callaway, After Ours (Denon, 1997)
  • , James Galway, Noel (RCA Victor, 1994)
  • , Kvitka (KMC, 1980)
  • Steve Clayton, Love Is Said in Many Ways (Stash, 1991)
  • , , Smoky Bar Songs for the No Smoking Section (Lookoutjazz, 1994)
  • Cynthia Crane, Cynthia's in Love (Lookoutjazz, 1997)
  • , The Dana Owens Album (A&M, 2004)
  • , Rocks in the Head (Atlantic, 1992)
  • , Positively Volume VII (Daffodil, 1983)
  • Blossom Dearie, Mike Renzi, Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Daffodil, 1991)
  • , (Reprise, 2012)
  • , The Jazz Kamerata (Chesky, 2005)
  • Robert Gordon, Bad Boy (BMG, 1997)
  • , This Rhythm on My Mind (Bluesback, 2006)
  • , Green Power (Project 3, 1971)
  • , Harp Beat (Stash, 1985)
  • , The Other Side of Sondheim (Atlantic, 1988)
  • , Bucky Pizzarelli, Legends (Arbors, 2003)
  • , Teach Me Tonight (Venus, 2005)
  • , If You Could See Me Now (Gemini, 1996)
  • , Swing Is Here (Reference, 1996)
  • Dick Hyman, You're My Everything (Venus, 2012)
  • , Don't Call Me Buckwheat (RCA, 1991)
  • , At Last (, 1995)
  • , Arigato (Progressive, 1989)
  • , Portraits (Muse, 1984)
  • , Peggy King Sings Jerome Kern (Stash, 1985)
  • , Dovetail (Sunnyside, 1985)
  • , Georgie Fame, On a Misty Night (Odin, 2018)
  • , , North Carolina Is My Home (Piedmont Airlines, 1985)
  • , Bob Dorough, Dick Sudhalter, Hoagy's Children (Audiophile, 1983)
  • , Alibis (RCA Victor/Saravah, 1979)
  • Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Bande Originale Du Film Fantastica (Saravah, 1980)
  • , Steal the Moon (Sunnyside, 2000)
  • , The Painted Lady Suite (Sunnyside, 2018)
  • Marian McPartland, Steely Dan, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan (Jazz Alliance, 2005)
  • , Some People's Lives (Atlantic, 1990)
  • , In the Digital Mood (GRP, 1983)
  • , Jonah Man and Other Songs of the Bert Williams Era (Vanguard, 1976)
  • Max Morath, Jonah Man: A Tribute to Bert Williams (Vanguard, 1996)
  • , Sweet 'n' Gritty (Disques Swing, 1991)
  • , Walk on the Water (DRG, 1980)
  • Mark Murphy, Lucky to Be Me (HighNote, 2002)
  • , Jeanne (Vigor, 1976)
  • , Share My Dream (DMP, 1985)
  • Anita O'Day, S Wonderful Big Band Concert 1985 (Emily, 1985)
  • , Steady Nerves (Elektra, 1985)
  • , Christmas with Houston Person and Friends (Muse, 1994)
  • Peter, Paul & Mary, No Easy Walk to Freedom (Mercury, 1986)
  • , Five for Freddie (Arbors, 2006)
  • Bucky Pizzarelli, Plays the Music of Jerome Kern (LRC, 2006)
  • , Time to Fly (Decca, 1971)
  • Jim Pugh, Eijiro Nakagawa, Just Us (E'nJ, 2006)
  • , Any Time (Blue Thumb, 2001)
  • , Manhattan Serenade (Beekman Place, 1990)
  • Earl Rose, Take My Breath Away (Sony, 1997)
  • , Music Is Forever (DRG, 1996)
  • , String Swing (Jazzology, 2000)
  • , Night Blossom (DIW, 1990)
  • , Full Cycle (Paddle Wheel, 1983)
  • Don Sebesky, Moving Lines (Doctor Jazz, 1985)
  • , My Romance (Arista, 1990)
  • , Songs from The Capeman (Warner Bros., 1997)
  • , Nights of Key Largo (Venus, 2008)
  • , From the Heart (Half Note, 2006)
  • , Never Die Young (Columbia, 1988)
  • , 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)
  • , Traveling (Progressive, 1980)
  • , It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Sons of Sound, 2006)
  • , I'm Glad There Is You (Sea Ker Inc., 1995)

See also
  • Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, musical comedy revue

External links

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