Jake Leckie creates organic soulful avant-groove folk-jazz for the people! With firm roots in jazz, his bass playing is informed by classical, gospel, latin, folk, & hip- hop. He has played internationally at festivals including Newport and Havana Jazz Festivals, toured with Sixto Rodriguez, The Harlem Gospel Travelers, and Matthew Whittaker, and worked as a session bassist with multi-platinum Grammy award winning producer Daniel Tannenbaum (aka Bekon) on recordings for charting pop artists such as Jessie Murph. He has performed with a diverse array of musicians including Cat Toren, Hitomi Oba, Susan Alcorn, Matana Roberts, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Vardan Ovsepian, and Pacific Mambo Orchestra. He produced several albums, including Chris McCarthy’s Ropeadope release Still Time To Quit, Sebastien Ammann's Resilience, and mixed numerous recordings including five albums by Thumbscrew (Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara). His work as a composer can be heard on PBS, BBC, HBO, CNN, and NBC, and on the comedy-dance-sketch-fantasy Snowy Bing Bongs Across The North Star Combat Zone. 

Born in Boston, Leckie developed an interest in improvised music at a young age studying with John Lockwood. He recorded with avant-noir pianist Ran Blake, reggae guitarist Lyn Taitt, and long time friends Eli “Paperboy” Reed and Eli Keszler. He earned a degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Ethnomusicology from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore while studying bass with Michael Formanek and playing in the music ministry of a Baptist church, and a Masters in Audio Science from the Recording Arts department of the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Gary Thomas and Jeff Weisner, and had opportunities to perform with George Garzone and Yo-Yo Ma.

Leckie recorded his debut album The Abode in New York with trumpeter Kenny Warren, pianist Sebastien Ammann, drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell, and guest artists Caroline Davis, Daniel Prim, and Alexis Morrast, which was released on Outside In Music in 2019 to critical acclaim. After relocating to LA, he produced his second album, The Guide, an analog acoustic folk-jazz recording released on Ropeadope Records in 2022, with guitarist Nadav Peled and drummer Beth Goodfellow. His third album of original music, Planter of Seeds, featuring The Guide Trio with pianist Cathlene Pineda, saxophonist Randal Fisher, and trombonist Darius Christian, was released in 2024.