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Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician.He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylum Records' artists that they became known as Asylum's de facto house band, [2] as those artists became iconic singer-songwriters of the 1970s.
Leland Sklar is an American bassist and session musician.He was born in Milwaukee, and moved with his family to Los Angeles at age of four. He was a member of the Los Angeles-based instrumental group The Section, who served as the de facto house band of Asylum Records and were one of the progenitors of the soft rock sound prevalent on top-40 radio in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Section was a United States instrumental rock/jazz fusion band formed in the early 1970s by guitarist Danny Kortchmar, keyboardist Craig Doerge, bassist Leland Sklar, and drummer Russ Kunkel. Other musicians associated with the group include multi-instrumentalist David Lindley and guitarist Waddy Wachtel. They are best known for both studio ...
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Notable past members of the band's touring lineup include keyboardist and technician John Jessel (from 1991 to 2004), [22] guitarist and vocalist Tony Spinner (from 1999 to 2008), [23] vocalist Buddy Hyatt (1999), bassist Leland Sklar (from 2007 to 2008, and in 2016), [24] [25] and backing vocalist Jenny Douglas-Foote (from 1990 to 1997, 2011 ...
Crosby & Nash is a double album by Crosby & Nash, released in 2004, the duo's fourth and final studio recording.It was the first studio album by the duo since Whistling Down the Wire 28 years earlier, and proved to be the final album of original material by any grouping of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in quartet, trio, or duo configuration.
Director Denny Tedesco previously scored a hit among music fans with his 2008 film “The Wrecking Crew,” a documentary about the battalion of 1960s studio musicians whose names were little ...
[128] [129] Beginning in 1973 he hosted a regular weekly jam session at Los Angeles clubs called "the Jim Keltner Fan Club" frequented by many of the younger L.A. session musicians of the time (Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, and Jeff and Steve Porcaro). [130]