Max Leake

Welcome to my website! I am a jazz piano and keyboard player and have been performing, arranging, composing and recording in the Pittsburgh area as well as other areas of the country since 1975. I have traveled extensively as a performer and lived in a variety of locations during my career including Portland, OR, Los Angeles, CA and the Catskill mountains of New York. Currently I make my home in Pittsburgh and perform with many different bands in the area as well as with artists who pick up bands when they come through Pittsburgh on tour. I am also an adjunct professor of jazz piano at Duquesne University’s Mary Pappart School of Music.

I feel blessed to be a part of the incredible Pittsburgh music scene. Pittsburgh has an extremely rich music tradition producing many of the giants of jazz piano, including Ahmad Jamal, Erroll Garner, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Dodo Marmarosa and Mary Lou Williams to name a few. I humbly hope that I can live up to that legacy.

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