2 years, 5 months ago
Is Rev. Leroy Jenkins dead?
I had heard on the news that he had passed away
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No, the Leroy Jenkins that recently passed away is a jazz musician who is 74 years old. and not the Rev. Leroy Jenkins you mean.
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Leroy Jenkins was 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.
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Leroy Jenkins was 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.
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