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Getting Down to Bass-ics
By WILL FRIEDWALD, Special to the Sun
January 31, 2010
Considering that his day job consists of helping other people make their own music – for nearly 50 years he's been one of the busiest bass players in New York – the songs of Jay Leonhart are amazingly personal. Mr. Leonhart has launched what might be his most ambitious venture as a bandleader and star, taking his own trio (with trumpeter Michael Leonhart, and his son, pianist Ted Rosenthal) into the Metropolitan Room for a month of Wednesdays.
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