Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician)

Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician)

Leroy Jenkins (March 11, 1932February 24, 2007) was a composer and free jazz violinist and violist.

Jenkins was involved in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) while a public school teacher in Chicago. He co-founded the Creative Construction Company with Anthony Braxton and others. He led the Revolutionary Ensemble and formed a trio with Anthony Davis and Andrew Cyrille.

During 1987 he toured Europe as part of Cecil Taylor's group.

He gained recognition for music-theatre works such as "The Mother of Three Sons" (written in collaboration with Ann T. Greene), "Fresh Faust" and "The Negros Burial Ground" (in collaboration with Ann T. Greene), and "The Three Willies" (in collaboration with Homer Jackson).

ee also

* "Escalator Over The Hill"

External links

* [http://www.lovely.com/artists/a-jenkins.html Lovely Music Artist: Leroy Jenkins]
* [http://aacmchicago.org/members/Leroy.html AACM: Leroy Jenkins]
* [http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Jenkins.shtml Other Minds: Leroy Jenkins]
* [http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=61fp12 Dialogue] between 'Blue' Gene Tyranny and Leroy Jenkins


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