Peter Leitch (musician)
Peter Leitch ( born August 19, 1944 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian jazz guitarist.
Life
Peter Leitch grew up in Montreal and lived from 1977 to 1981 in Toronto. There he worked with Oscar Peterson and collaborated on his album The Personal Touch ( Pablo) with. He also played with the Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest Quintet and Sadik Hakim; In 1981, a first album under his own name on the Jazz House label. In 1983, Leitch to New York and worked as a freelance musician and occasionally as a jazz journalist. In 1986, he played in the band of Woody Shaw ( Solid), Jaki Byard 1988. In 1992 he accompanied the singer Jeri Brown. Between 1984 and 1988 the recordings for Leitch's albums Red Zone and exhilaration, where Pepper Adams, John Hicks, Kirk Lightsey, Ray Drummond, Billy Hart and Marvin Smitty Smith participated emerged. For the Criss Cross label Leitch took with Bobby Watson and James Williams ( Portraits and Dedications ).
From the early 1990s created a series of albums for Concord Records, among others, John Hicks, John Swana and Gary Bartz. The mid-1990s changed Leitch to the reservoir label and took a series of albums, where he worked with Gary Bartz, Claudio Roditi, Jed Levy, George Cables. In 1999 he played with Gary Bartz Duo (The Montreal Concert). His most recent work Autobiography goes through a repertoire of Albert Ayler ( Ghosts ), Charlie Parker ( segment ) to Henry Mancini Pink Panther Theme, as well as an acoustic solo version of the jazz standard East of the Sun ( and West of the Moon ).
Disco printing specifications
- Portraits and Dedications ( Criss Cross, 1989)
- Trio Quartet '91 ( Concord, 1991)
- From Another Perspective ( Concord, 1992)
- Colours 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)