Leroy Jenkins is dead

"Arguably the most pivotal free-jazz violinist of the ?60s?internationally renowned for both his compositional and improvisational skills and vision in merging jazz and blues with a European classical sensibility?longtime AACM member Leroy Jenkins passed away Saturday, Feb. 24 in New York. Several sources report lung cancer as the cause of death. Jenkins was 74.

Perhaps best known for his work in the underrated Revolutionary Ensemble (with bassist Sirone and percussionist Jerome Cooper), Jenkins also collaborated with Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Rashied Ali and many others. Since 1966, his diverse approach and singular style were in high demand from all facets of the experimental music world. Stuff Smith, Eddie South and Joe Venuti may have pioneered jazz violin, but Jenkins was responsible for injecting avant-garde ideas (such as sawing, use of distortion, atonality, string bending and plucking) into the instrument and expanding its vocabulary."

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Least he had chicken...

 

This is weird. A band on Myspace that happens ot be on my friends list posted a bulletin about this guy dying a month or two ago...

 

I was expecting a World of Warcraft reference, I admit...

 

And for that, you know that your life is forfeit.

 

I figured old Leroy was taken out when he rushed into that castle before everyone else...

 

I'm not even a WoW player and I thought that this was about The Leroy Jenkins. I thought they in some way had cancelled his existence...I wasn't entirely wrong though.

 

I remember I made a thread titled "LEEEEROOOOOOOOYYY..." and just posted a picture of this guy in it. Good times. RIP good sir.

 

lol. I was not expecting that.