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TOM LEAVEY

Bass player Tom Leavey is a solid, long-time veteran musician who has been gigging since his high school days in New York in the late 1950s. Tom earned his stripes in the 1960s backing a wide variety of rock & roll and R&B acts up and down the east coast, in New York's famed Greenwich Village, and in the show lounges of swinging Las Vegas. Relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, Tom was an integral part of the flourishing rock scene, touring and recording with a who's who of big name

stars, while still keeping a hand in the blues doing gigs with legends such as Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Turner. Leavey spent a brief spell Arizona in the '80 - just long enough to open up a successful jazz and blues club, and pick up a "Best Phoenix Blues Band" award for his band The Mojomatics - before returning to L.A. for gigs with the likes of Otis Rush, Frank Frost, Finis Tasby, Johnny Dyer and many more, widely acclaimed recordings with the Billy Boy Arnold and King Ernest, and tours with Roy Gaines, Jody Williams, and more. These days he splits his time between gigs with piano ace Rob Rio and The Mannish Boys.

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