Jacques Lesure


Jacques Lesure is an American Jazz guitarist and recording artist. He is signed to WJ3 Records. His performances can be heard in most recent La La Land''" Academy Award winning movie.

Life and career

Jacques was born in Detroit and first began playing guitars at the age of 10 in his church. He was influenced by people like George Benson and Kenny Burrell. His professional career started in Gospel Music with The Clark Sisters, Commissioned and other prominent Detroit gospel musicians while studying Jazz at the same time. In 1980 he became fully involved in jazz. Jacques is also an author, motivational speaker and radio/podcast host. Jacques has performed with several jazz artists like Jimmy Smith and Stanley Turrentine as well as Wynton Marsalis, Eric Reed, Warren Wolf and Gregory Porter.

Discography