Jay Leach

Jay Leach: Cleared for Takeoff

Read "Cleared for Takeoff" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
August 6, 2006

Favoring smooth jazz as a means to communicate with a larger audience, guitarist Jay Leach interprets a program of originals and covers with the help of a crew that numbers over 25. While it's a large group of players, their sound remains smooth and mellow.

Leach was Barry Manilow's guitarist at the peak of the singer's career in the late 1970s. From that experience, he gained a strong sense of what kinds of melodies move people. He wants ...

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Jay Leach is Cleared for Takeoff

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
June 11, 2007

After years of session work in Los Angeles, Guitar Books with Mel Bay, and now with the new release of his 7th album ( with notable guests such as Kirk Whalum, Alex Acuna, Abe Laboriel, and Chester Thompson ), Jay Leach is defintely Cleared for Takeoff.

Episodes of American Idol including Kenny Rogers, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Pickler, and Martina McBride, this years TV Land Awards, notable motion picture soundtracks such as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Six Days and ...
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