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Featured in venues from Manhattan to Europe and Japan, pianist/vocalist Alex Leonard performs a repertoire of improvised music and great American standards. Alex is a 2008/09 MAC award nominee for best jazz duo.
"...Leonard is an important mainstay of the Big Apple"
- All Music Guide
"The kind of smooth, urbane voice that fits Porter to a tee... Leonard is a swinging, sexy pianist..." - Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine
"His piano playing is top draw, betraying thoughts of Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, and Hank Jones." - Dave Nathan, All About Jazz
"Alex Leonard is a polished musician with complex, thoughtful, yet accessible interpretations from an eclectic song list." ...introspective selections have a ebullient finesse separating him from many other interpreters." - Elizabeth Ahlfors, Cabaret Scenes
"Alex Leonard is one of the finest jazz pianists performing today." "One of the most superb, finest Cole Porter collections made in recent years." - Lee Prosser, JazzReview.com
"...Superb piano playing..." "...serious musicians and the disc is a class act" - David Hurst, Show Business
"Down in the Depths should be added to the list of illustrious, unique recorded performances of Cole Porter songs and is recommended." - Dave Nathan, AllAboutJazz.com
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