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L.A. Jenkins
Dear Fellow adventurous music partners,
L. A. Jenkins: Born September 16, Columbus Ohio
Style of playing/ creative endeavor: modern jazz, / free improvisations, ambient/ experimental and first generation jazz/rock.
L.A.’s influences and playing experience are diverse. He grew up in Columbus Ohio performing with funk and rock groups in several major market cities.
L.A.’s major endeavor as an artist is first the creative style of avant-garde music. L.A. decided to play this style of music after hearing the “Art Ensemble of Chicago”, “Live in Berlin”. Sun Ra was L.A.’s, Jimmy Hendrix. Residing in the mid-west L.A. followed the prerequisite learning of popular music due to the limited access and peer instruction of creative avant-garde music.
L.A. studied performance music at Eastern New Mexico University; but by his own assertion he is primarily a self taught guitarist. L.A. has studied the “Harmolodic” approach to harmony/theory as developed and performed by Ornette Coleman.
L.A. stated, that he mainly sees himself as a composer primarily and an explorer of new sounds. The guitar is his voice for his musical expression and aspirations, and his instrument is the implementer for his musical sojourns.
Over the last several years L.A. has released several CDs. Noted musical releases are: “Fade to Go”, “Unknown Man,” “Persistence of Vision”, “Momentum into Nothingness” and two new 2009 releases: “Man Danced Funny” and “Inability to Fly.”
In the last few years L.A. have performed and recorded with many creative musicians and some of his major collaborators are: drummer /percussionist Ryan Jewell, bassist Tom Abbs and sound sampler /drummer Chris Murray just to highlight a few of these very creative artists.
L.A. is currently in the process of working on several new projects and collaborations. These new projects are with Gary Thompson on saxophone, programmer Bryan Stewart, trumpeter Martin Ripple and multi instrumentalist drummer/synthesist Adam West.
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Willard Jenkins Presents A Collection Of Reflections About Jazz, Journalism, And Race With 'Ain't But A Few Of Us,' To Be Published Dec. 2 By Duke University Press
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Washington, DC-based jazz journalist, broadcaster, presenter, and advocate Willard Jenkins presents a literary panorama of the lives and works of African American jazz writers with his edited volume Ain’t But A Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story (Duke University Press). As the title suggests, Jenkins gathers the relative handful of Black scribes who focus on jazz music—from A.B. Spellman and Greg Tate to Anthony Dean-Harris and Angelika Beener—and gives them space to relate their perspectives in their ...
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Sacramento-Based Drummer Alex Jenkins Releases 'Tri-Cycle' with Levi Saelua and Alex Reiff
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Alex Jenkins
Tri-Cycle is Alex Jenkins’ second trio album and features two of Sacramento’s most talented Jazz musicians; Levi Saelue on tenor saxophone/clarinet and Alex Reiff on the upright bass. The new album features seven original songs and two reworks; Led Zeppelin’s “No Quartet” and Dewey Redman’s “Joie De Vivre”. The opening track, “Scarlet Lullaby”, is an original composition by Jenkins and opens with an Afro-Cuban 12/8 feel in 7/4. With a haunting yet beautiful melody, this piece displays a trademark of ...
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John Jenkins & Kenny Burrell
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Alto saxophonist John Jenkins never recorded a bad album—as a leader or a sideman. When you hear him, the first person you think of is Jackie McLean. Both had an urgent, insistent edge, particularly on the saxophone's upper register. Remarkably, Jenkins recorded just 11 albums, only three of which were leadership dates. Given how special Jenkins was, his studio output was shockingly scant. My favorite of the three leadership albums is John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell. Recorded for Blue Note ...
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Willard Jenkins Ponders the Audience-Friendly Factor...
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Robert Glasper backstage at Oberlin College the other night greeting one of his fans, the writer's daughter Iyesha Jenkins. One element of our dialogue on the black audience for creative music, as well as our conversation with Nicholas Payton (scroll down for that dialogue) and his ongoing promotion of the omnibus term “BAM" relates to the need for artists to be more audience-friendly. And by that I am certainly not advocating for outright pandering to the lowest common denominator. Several ...
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Dr. Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins Celebrate African Rhythms at the University of the District of Columbia’s JAZZforum Series
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Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives
Washington, D.C.—The University of the District of Columbia welcomes National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master, Dr. Randy Weston and independent arts consultant/producer and journalist Willard Jenkin to the JAZZforum series for a special appearance on Thursday April 7, 2011 at 7 pm to discuss African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston. (Composed by Randy Weston, Arranged by Willard Jenkins: Duke University Press, 2010).
Randy Weston's 85th birthday anniversary is in April 2011 and JAZZforum is delighted to be ...
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Henry Jenkins: 'Recording Industry Acted Like Jackasses and Don't Deserve Any Sympathy.'
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HypeBot
Everyone has an opinion about the plight of the record industry. Some are worth listening to, others not so much. Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, is a renowned media scholar and cultural critic. Copy Grounds, a new media discussion form, had the chance to talk to Jenkins and he had some choice words about the record industry. He's in the midst of a new book and has been researching grassroots process of circulation. Asked his thoughts on the RIAA ...
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The Jazz Session #123: Willard Jenkins
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Michael Ricci
Willard Jenkins is a jazz broadcaster and blogger, and a consultant to jazz artists and festivals. Jenkins blog, The Independent Ear is a constant source of news and views about the jazz world. In this interview, Jenkins talks about the diminishing influence of jazz in peoples home record collections and thus in the lives of their children; why jazz is no longer an integral part of the black community experience; and that jazz isn't dead, but it does need to ...
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"Careers in Jazz" Featured at The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
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Michael Ricci
Producer, presenter, journalist, broadcaster, educator, arts consultant, and arts administrator, Willard Jenkins voices his opinion on Bill Anschell's “Careers in Jazz“ article at his blog, The Independent Ear: Pianist-composer and humorist Bill Anschell (Google this guy and that’s exactly the heading for his billanschell.com web site) recently posted perhaps his most comprehensively dark humor piece yet, at All About Jazz. (It should be noted here that Bill Sent The Independent Ear a copy of the piece at the approximate ...
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Karl Jenkins: Musical Tourist Comes Home
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All About Jazz
He’s spent a lifetime mixing musical styles but, as he prepares for his latest Welsh premiere, composer – and self-proclaimed “musical tourist” – Karl Jenkins tells Gavin Allen that he’s finally arrived at his musical destination THE journey to become the UK’s best-selling modern classical composer has taken Karl Jenkins on some jazzy detours, but classical music has always been his point of departure and arrival. As he prepares for the Welsh premiere of Stabat Mater, Jenkins says he is ...
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Rebecca Jenkins, One of Canada's Most Beloved Film and Television Stars, Returns to Her Jazz Roots with the Release of the Highly Anticipated Blue Skies.
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All About Jazz
Vancouver, B.C. - Maximum Jazz together with EMI Music Canada is proud to announce the release of “Blue Skies" the highly anticipated new recording by Rebecca Jenkins. Rebecca Jenkins, one of Canada's most beloved film and television stars, returns to her jazz roots with the release of Blue Skies. Co-produced by Jenkins with Joel Bakan (writer of The Corporation book and film) Blue Skies features Jenkins pure and soulful voice, and her original phrasing and interpretations, on some of the ...
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