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Joseph Jarman - 66% match to Leroy Jenkins
14 September 1937, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA. When he was a child Jarman’s family moved to Chicago, where he studied drums at high school. While in the army he played saxophone and clarinet; after demobilisation he travelled until settling back in Chicago in 1961. He joined the AACM in 1965, leading various groups and playing in Richard Muhal Abrams’ The Experiment Read more 
Frank Lowe - 54% match to Leroy Jenkins
24 June 1943, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, d. 19 September 2003, New York City, New York, USA. Although originally categorized as a ‘new thing’ (the US 60s free-jazz movement) player, Lowe grew into one of the most distinctive and thoughtful of contemporary tenor saxophonists. Growing up in Memphis, one of his first jobs was at the Satellite record shop and its offshoo Read more 
Sonny Simmons - 49% match to Leroy Jenkins
Huey Simmons, 4 August 1933, Sicily Island, Louisiana, USA. Simmons’ family moved to Oakland, California, when he was eight years old. Though he was interested in music, his parents could not afford to pay for lessons for him, and it was not until 1950 that he was able to buy his own alto saxophone. A few years later he met flautist Prince Lasha and worked with him for Read more 
Fred Anderson - 45% match to Leroy Jenkins
22 March 1929, Monroe, Louisiana, USA. Resident in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago, since the age of 10, the self-taught Anderson was known locally as an ‘outside’ tenor saxophonist, his gruff, vigorous style mixing the lyricism and power of bebop with the more experimental approach of Ornette Coleman. In the mid-60s he was a founder member of the AACM, r Read more 
Burton Greene - 21% match to Leroy Jenkins
14 June 1937, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Playing piano from early childhood, in the late 50s Greene studied classical music, at Chicago’s Fine Arts Academy, and jazz with Dick Marx. He played bebop in Chicago before spending time in California where he played some free jazz with flautist Jon Winter. Although he had begun his jazz life in a bebop world, Greene was eager to Read more 
Anthony Davis - 20% match to Leroy Jenkins
20 February 1951, Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Coming from an academic background (his father was the first black faculty member at Princeton University and, as chairman of African-American Studies at Yale, devised one of the first and best black studies programmes in the USA), Davis grew up in Princeton and State College in Pennsylvania. He began to take classical piano lesso Read more 
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - 18% match to Leroy Jenkins
The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble was formed in 1976 by Edward Wilkerson Jnr. (27 July 1955, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA; reeds) and Kahil El’Zabar (b. Clifton Blackburn, 11 November 1953, Chicago, Illinois, USA; percussion). Wilkerson, one of the most versatile of the new Chicago saxophonists, also leads the octet 8 Bold Souls and a big band, Shadow Vignettes. El’Zabar s Read more 
Misha Mengelberg - 18% match to Leroy Jenkins
5 April 1935, Kiev, Ukraine. Born of a Dutch father, Mengelberg was raised in Holland where, for 40 years, he has personified the Dutch avant garde. He characterizes himself as ‘a rotten piano player’ - if that is the case, wittier use has rarely been made of limitations. Mengelberg has consistently aligned himself with iconoclastic and provocative musicians, from Read more 
The Ganelin Trio - 18% match to Leroy Jenkins
When originally formed in 1971 this Soviet trio consisted of Vyacheslav Ganelin (Kraskov, USSR; keyboards, flute, percussion, guitar), Vladimir Chekasin (b. Sverdlovsk; reeds, trombone, violin, percussion, voice), and Vladimir Tarasov (b. Archangelsk, USSR; drums, percussion). Although firmly based on composition, a recording or concert performance by the trio is a rich mix Read more Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - 17% match to Leroy Jenkins
15 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA. At college Threadgill shared a saxophone teacher with Anthony Braxton. In the early 60s he played with Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams in the Experimental Band, the precursor of the AACM. He missed the AACM’s beginnings as he spent several years touring America with an Evangelist Camp, contributing saxophone to the gos Read more 
Mark Dresser - 16% match to Leroy Jenkins
26 September 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA. Dresser started on bass at the age of 10, played in rock groups in his early teens then studied music at Indiana University for one year, leaving because ‘it was too straight for me, like a music factory’. Moving to San Diego, he studied with classical maestro Bertram Turetzky and also played at weekly jam sessions i Read more 
Thomas Chapin - 16% match to Leroy Jenkins
9 March 1957, Manchester, Connecticut, USA, d. 13 February 1998, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. After studying formally at Hartt College of Music, Hartford, Chapin played alto and soprano saxophones professionally with Jackie McLean and others before studying with Paul Jeffrey, with whom he also worked, Ted Dunbar and Kenny Barron. He gained a degree at Rutgers and then play Read more 
Ivo Perelman - 15% match to Leroy Jenkins
12 January 1961, São Paulo, Brazil. Although largely known for his playing of the tenor saxophone, Perelman also plays piano, clarinet, cello and recorder and is a trained classical guitar player. Perelman made an immediate impression with his 1989 debut Ivo, and his subsequent work has continued to justify his critical status as one of the most important and distinct Read more 
Roy Campbell - 13% match to Leroy Jenkins
New York City, New York, USA. Trumpeter Campbell plays the cornet, flügelhorn and pocket trumpet, in addition to the recorder, wood flute and various percussion instruments. He plays in an energized post-bop style that can at times slip easily into free form. Nevertheless, Campbell rarely strays far from the lyrical aspects of music, and even at his most acidic can unex Read more
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