Name: Leon Joyce Jr. Quartet
Start: 2024-09-27T18:30:00
Location: Monterey County Fairgrounds

Leon Joyce Jr.

Monterey Jazz Festival

Leon Joyce Jr., a native of Meriden, Connecticut, received his musical training through private instruction under John Oblon and Jimmy Rozelle. While still in high school, he toured Connecticut and Massachusetts with the Greater Hartford Community College Theater Group, performing the Broadway musical Hair. Although Leon's musical career began in high school, it really was shaped and nurtured when he joined the Marine Corps in 1976. In the years that followed, he served as a field band musician in Marine Corps Bands in San Diego, California; Iwakuni, Japan; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; Parris Island, South Carolina; Okinawa, Japan; El Toro, California; and Albany, Georgia. He graduated from the Intermediate Course at the Armed Forces School of Music in 1987. Gunnery Sergeant Joyce reported to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band as Percussion Section Leader in April 1990. He was promoted to his present rank in August 1990. In August 1991, he was appointed to the position of Drum Major. Leon retired from the Marine Corps in June of 1997 from Marine Corps Logistic Base in Albany, Georgia.