Peter Leitch

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Peter Leitch (born August 19, 1944 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian jazz guitarist.

Live and act

Peter Leitch grew up in Montreal and then lived in Toronto from 1977 to 1981 . He worked there with Oscar Peterson and took part in his album The Personal Touch ( Pablo ). He also played with the Al Gray / Jimmy Forrest quintet and Sadik Hakim ; In 1981 he released his first album under his own name on the Jazz House label. In 1983 Leitch moved to New York, where he worked as a freelance musician and occasionally as a jazz journalist. In 1986 he played in the band of Woody Shaw ( Solid ), in 1988 with Jaki Byard. In 1992 he accompanied the singerJeri Brown . Between 1984 and 1988 the recordings for Leitch's albums Red Zone and Exhilaration ( Uptown ) were made, on which Pepper Adams , John Hicks , Kirk Lightsey , Ray Drummond , Billy Hart and Marvin Smitty Smith participated. Leitch recorded with Bobby Watson and James Williams ( Portraits and Dedications ) for the Criss Cross label .

Since the early 1990s, a number of albums have been made for Concord Records , including with John Hicks, John Swana and Gary Bartz . In the mid-1990s, Leitch switched to the Reservoir label and recorded a number of albums on which he worked with Gary Bartz, Claudio Roditi , Jed Levy , George Cables and Sean Smith , among others . In 1999 he played with Gary Bartz in a duo ( The Montreal Concert ). His album Autobiography (2004) runs through a repertoire from Albert Ayler's Ghosts to Charlie Parker's Segment to Henry Mancini's Pink Panther Theme as well as an acoustic solo version of the jazz standard East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) . He performs regularly with his 14-piece New Life Orchestra .

Discographic notes

  • Portraits and Dedications ( Criss Cross , 1989)
  • Trio Quartet '91 (Concord, 1991)
  • From Another Perspective (Concord, 1992)
  • Colors and Dimensions (Reservoir, 1995)
  • Up Front (Reservoir, 1996)
  • Blues on the Corner (Reservoir, 1999)
  • Gary Bartz / Peter Leitch: The Montreal Concert (DSM, 1999)
  • Autobiography (Reservoir, 2004)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiography at Allmusic (English)
  2. ^ The Peter Leitch New Life Orchestra Returns to Club 75
personal data
SURNAME Leitch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa