ArtistInfo

Terry Jennings

p, sax, 1940-1981 US, Eagle Rock
Musician / Composer of Classical and Electronic

Terry Jennings (19 July 1940 – 11 December 1981) was an American minimalist composer and performer.Terry Jennings was born in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, in 1940. Coming from a background in jazz, he played piano, clarinet, and saxophones. He played jazz with La Monte Young in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, and later began to compose in the manner of Young's early sustained-tone style (Garland and Young 2001). He also studied with Robert Erickson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts.[citation needed] He was active as both composer and performer in New York starting in 1960, where he worked with the James Waring Dance Company and with La Monte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music. Two of his compositions from 1960, Piano Pi

Instruments

• Piano
• Saxophone

Genres

• Classical
• Electronic
• Folk
• World

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