Dave Leonatti
Nightsounds Host/ ProducerDave Leonatti is an architect, freelance writer and self-professed music nut based in Springfield. He wrote music and performing arts reviews for the State Journal-Register. Dave started the Nightsounds program in the late 1980's.
Dave is a musician--he's played bass, guitar and drums in several rock and bluegrass bands. He plays bass for the NPR Illinois All-Star Band, "The Pitch Patio Pickers," with Mark Mathewson and Jennifer Ramm, the host of Bluegrass Breakdown.
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Our first full year of Nightsounds Jazz. A few of the many, many great jazz records out there. I lament that these artists are not household names. Terrific work. Keep exploring.
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Meet the new year….same as the old year. But there was outstanding music to comfort and inspire us despite a second year of pandemicized performance. This is only a smattering. Get out there and listen!
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I wanted to get something out there for the best of jazz albums for 2020, since we launched Nightsounds Jazz in October. Seek these out and I will expand…
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I will resist saying it’s been a year like any other – that goes without saying. But there was a tremendous outpouring of stellar music – pandemic-centric…
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Here are mighty fine albums and great songs we shared during the year....in no particular order.Crane Like the Bird “Crane Like the Bird”Drummer Kyle…
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Here are albums and great songs we shared during the year....in no particular order.Rayland Baxter “Wide Awake”Without doubt, the record on repeat for the…
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This blog post differs from my “Best Of’s” postings and will be unlike anything I will pen in the future. This reflection, and please indulge me, is for…
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Happy New Year, Folks!Some of these seem like every other year citations, as some of the artists appeared as "Best Of's" in 2015. Here are albums and…
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I think there were less blockbusters and outright bowl-you-over releases in 2016, so in lieu of longer album reviews, more brief synopses of albums and…
