Reviews

Jay Leonhart: Galaxies and Planets
(Sons of Sound SSPCD008)

"If you could somehow stuff Dave Frishberg, Mose Allison, Jon Hendricks and Eddie Jefferson into a blender, out would pour Jay Leonhart. He contains many of their best ingredients, yet like each of them he remains a jazz original. The wit, the down-home ease, the slickness, the vocalese are all there--plus Leonhart provides his own bass line. He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk. He also has the jazz credentials, from the Peabody School and Berklee to studying with Ray Brown and playing with Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Jim Hall and Gerry Mulligan…" [read the review]
— JazzTimes, April 2001

"…Master bassist Jay Leonhart has chosen a program of his own songs to fill an album dedicated to the memory of Milt Hinton. The material is the type one associates with Murk Murphy, Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough, hip, often funny and kind of folksy. It’s as if Leonhart was sitting across from you recounting some of his life event…" [read the review]
— All About Jazz, April 2001