{"id":105688,"date":"2025-12-19T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/?p=105688"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:44:11","slug":"mackenzie-leighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/mackenzie-leighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Leighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-105494 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/LeightonMackenzie-Arthur-Edited-150x150.png\" alt=\"Mackenzie Leighton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/LeightonMackenzie-Arthur-Edited-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/LeightonMackenzie-Arthur-Edited-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/LeightonMackenzie-Arthur-Edited.png 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><a href=\"mailto:mleighton@palomar.edu\"><strong>Mackenzie Leighton<\/strong> <\/a>is a bassist and composer from San Diego, CA. He is a sought after sideman in Southern California, known for his versatility, solid groove, and technical prowess. He has performed with jazz legends such as Pat Metheny, Donald Brown, and Geoffrey Keezer, and works regularly with Southern California jazz heroes Peter Sprague, Gilbert Castellanos, and Kamau Kenyatta. He has performed at the Carlsbad Music Festival, Ensenada Jazz Festival, Tijuana Jazz and Blues Festival, and Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines. He has two albums as a leader \u2018I Remember\u2019 and \u2018MLTRIO\u201d, and his compositions have been featured on recordings by San Diego State University and themattsmithneujazz trio. He is a lecturer at CSU San Marcos where he directs the Jazz Ensemble and is studio faculty at a number of colleges in the San Diego and Orange county area. He holds a Masters in Music from San Diego State University.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">Mackenzie Leighton<br \/>\nPart Time Faculty Music<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:mleighton@palomar.edu\">mleighton@palomar.edu<\/a><br \/>\n(760) 744-1150 ext 2316<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part Time Music Faculty <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/mackenzie-leighton\/\">Continue Reading<span> Mackenzie Leighton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12261,"featured_media":105494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contact-list-music","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/LeightonMackenzie-Arthur-Edited.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 09:11:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106158,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105688\/revisions\/106158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}