Leo Genovese

Leonardo Genovese (born June 30, 1979) is an Argentine jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer based in the United States. He has played and recorded with The Mars Volta.

Life and career Genovese was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, in 1979. He began playing the piano at the age of 5 or 6, but became more interested in playing around ten years later. Down Beat observed that Genovese's compositions for the album "share an exploratory nature, whether the new terrain in question is a marriage of electronic and acoustic sounds, an unlikely use of chromatic scaling or the successful juxtaposition of otherwise disparate ideas."

Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese, soloist won a Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo for the Wayne Shorter composition "Endangered Species" for which Leo accompanied him on the album Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival. Genovese won the DownBeat Critics Award for Rising Star – Piano in 2023.

Discography An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.

As leader/co-leader

As sideman