Jake K. Leckie was born in Boston, MA.  He studied with John Lockwood in high school, and with Michael Formanek while studying Anthropology, Ethnomusicology and Audio Science at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  He has toured internationally with Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriguez and Cat Toren's “Human Kind.”  Since moving to New York in 2015, Jake has performed at The Blue Note, Minton’s Playhouse, Fat Cat, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, and The Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba.  He has engineered hundreds of recordings, including mixing Thumbscrew's Convallaria, and has composed original scores for several film projects, including Snowy Bing Bongs.

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