Michael Leonhart, born April 21, 1974, in New York City, New York, United States, is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Leonhart attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and won the Grammy Award for Outstanding High School Musician in 1992, while being named Person of the Week on ABC World News. Leonhart released debut studio albums including Aardvark Poses in 1995, Glub Glub Vol. 11 in 1997, Slow in 2002, and Seahorse & the Storyteller in 2010. Leonhart joined Steely Dan in 1996, performing on studio albums Two Against Nature in 2000 and Everything Must Go in 2003, and co-produced Donald Fagen's 2012 studio album, Sunken Condos. Leonhart collaborated with Yoko Ono, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, and Antibalas, featuring on the 2015 single “Uptown Funk”. Leonhart subsequently released studio albums including The Painted Lady Suite in 2018 and The Normyn Suites in 2022.
