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Black Bird

By Alex Jenkins

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old Devil Moon; Justin Montaney; Blackbird; Raven's Ascent; Folk Song; Segment; Cryopolis; All Is Fair In Love And War; What Is This Thing Called Love?

Alex Jenkins Trio: Black Bird

by Dan McClenaghan
September 11, 2024

An initial spin of Sacramento-based drummer Alex Jenkins' Black Bird--recorded by the Alex Jenkins Trio (AJT)--brings saxophonist Sonny Rollins' A Night At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1958) to mind. Rollins rolled in the trio mode for these 1957 Vanguard shows with just his saxophone, bass and drums. Going on stage in 1957 without a chording ...

Tri-Cycle

By Alex Jenkins

Label: 11th Ave Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Scarlet Lullaby; No Quarter; I Remember Roy; Joie de Vivre; Barnlit Moon; Azul; Contrafiction; Wilderness of Mirrors; Lost Art of Daydreaming.

Alex Jenkins Trio: Tri-Cycle

by Dan McClenaghan
September 17, 2021

The Alex Jenkins Trio, out of Sacramento, California, has a forthright, muscular sound. Sax, bass and drums--things boiled down to the essentials. Tri-Cycle, Jenkins' second trio recording presents music in an uncluttered style, opens the show with the cool pop and bubble of Jenkin's original, “Scarlet Lullaby." Jenkins drumming style--on a drum kit here, ...

Sacramento-Based Drummer Alex Jenkins Releases 'Tri-Cycle' with Levi Saelua and Alex Reiff

September 10, 2021

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 ...

Take Five with Alex Jenkins

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2021

Meet Alex Jenkins Alex Jenkins has always been a student of the world, especially its music. Well versed in music styles eastern and western, traditional and contemporary, Alex's sound transcends both traditions and boundaries. His expression of rhythm is most heavily influenced by his study of the tabla, a North Indian classical percussion instrument. This has ...

Scarlet Lullaby

September 16, 2021

Album: Tri-Cycle
By Alex Jenkins
Label: 11th Ave Music
Released: 2021
Duration: 49:80

Alex Jenkins Trio "Live at the Clara"

By Alex Jenkins

Label: 11th Ave Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Promise, Portrait of Rose Black, You Disgust Me, Upward Spiral, Puttin' On the Ritze, Hope, Misty Mountains