Parlor Performances Presents Jay Leonhart's Comedy The Bass Lesson
Steinway Hall (12121 Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064)
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- FREE - $12.50*
Jazz humorist Jay Leonhart starts off the show attempting to give the audience a bass lesson, but the lesson quickly turns into a series of funny and touching songs and vignettes about life -- covering everything from an airplane trip with Leonard Bernstein to an anxiety attack over a delayed flight carrying Leonhart to his first gig with Mel Torme.
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The last date listed for An Evening with Jay Leonhart, the World's Wittiest Bass Player-Songwriter was Sunday March 29, 2009 / 5:00pm.
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Tom H.
Not for everybody, perhaps, for for a musician, the humor was memorable. Who would figure that a 90 minutes of a songs accompanied only by bass could be so entertaining?Written on Mar 30 2009
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Quotes & Highlights
- "Add Leonhart to the small, very exclusive list of jazz humorists...In the upper echelon of a group that includes Oscar Brown Jr., Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough." --Los Angeles Times
- "Stuff Dave Frishberg, Mose Allison, and Jon Hendricks into a blender, out would come Jay Leonhart." --Jazz Times Magazine.
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<p>Born in Baltimore in 1940, Jay began his musical studies at the Peabody School of Music at age six, playing many instruments on his way to choosing the bass violin at age 13. Now after countless recordings and performances with many of the great jazz musicians and singers of the twentieth century -- from Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Dizzy Gillespie to James Taylor, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul & Mary and Sting -- Jay has become one of the most sought-after musicians in the world.</p>