Peter Leitch

Peter Leitch is definitely among the best straight-ahead guitarists in jazz, an excellent hard bop-based improviser having a swinging design and an attractive quiet firmness. He was raised in Montreal, resided in Toronto during 1977-1981; documented with Oscar Peterson, the Al Gray/Jimmy Forrest Quintet, and Sadik Hakim; and debuted like a innovator in 1981 around the Jazz Home label. Since shifting to NY in 1983, Leitch is a occupied freelancer and offers recorded a innovator for Uptown, Criss Mix, Concord, & most regularly for Reservoir. Furthermore, he continues to be an intermittent and insightful jazz journalist.