Leon Haywood

Too often, Leon Haywood’s work is dismissed as derivative by those who feel that his frequent appropriation of more famous material betrays a lack of ideas or originality. Though the spidery, fuzzed-out lead guitar work on “Long as There’s You” owes more than a little to Michael Toles’s work on “Walk on By,” Haywood employs his skills as a producer and arranger to fashion a compellingly original piece.