Leighton Harrell's Band

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Leighton Harrell (he/him) is a bassist and composer from Raleigh, North Carolina. He found his passion for music at the age of 16, and a year later was selected to be a member of the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble, with which he attended the 2017 Essentially Ellington competition in New York City. Upon graduating from high school in 2017, Leighton received a scholarship to attend the University of Toronto’s Jazz Performance program where he studied from 2017-2021. While in Toronto, Leighton balanced a busy schedule of gigs around the city with his studies, and beginning in 2019 held a residency at Poetry Jazz Café with his quartet, as well as a weekly residency at the Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar in the fall of 2020. After graduating from UofT, Leighton relocated to Montréal where he is currently based.

In addition to freelance work on the Toronto and Montréal jazz…