Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician)

Leroy Jenkins (March 11, 1932 – February 24, 2007) was a composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist.

Jenkins was involved in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) while a public school teacher in Chicago. He co-founded the Creative Construction Company with Anthony Braxton and others. He led the Revolutionary Ensemble and formed a trio with Anthony Davis and Andrew Cyrille.

During 1987 he toured Europe as part of Cecil Taylor's group.

He gained recognition for music-theatre works such as The Mother of Three Sons (written in collaboration with Ann T. Greene), Fresh Faust and The Negros Burial Ground (in collaboration with Ann T. Greene), and The Three Willies (in collaboration with Homer Jackson).

As leader

 * 1975: Swift are the Winds of Life (with Rashied Ali)
 * 1975: For Players Only (with Jazz Composer's Orchestra)
 * 1977: Solo Concert (India Navigation)
 * 1977: Lifelong Ambitions (Black Saint)
 * 1978: The Legend of Ai Glatson (Black Saint)
 * 1978: Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival America (Tomato Records)
 * 1979: Mixed Quintet (Black Saint)
 * 1979: Straight Ahead/Free at Last (Red Records)
 * 1984: Urban Blues (Black Saint)
 * 1992: Leroy Jenkins Live! (Black Saint)
 * 1994: Themes and Improvisations on the Blues
 * 1994: Solo (Lovely Music)

As sideman
With Muhal Richard Abrams With Anthony Braxton With Alice Coltrane With Creative Construction Company With Carl Hancock Rux With the Jazz Composer's Orchestra With Paul Motian With Dewey Redman With Revolutionary Ensemble With Archie Shepp With Henry Threadgill
 * Mama and Daddy
 * Levels and Degrees of Light
 * This Time... (BYG Actuel, 1969)
 * New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1974)
 * World Galaxy
 * Universal Consciousness
 * Creative Construction Company (Muse, 1970)
 * CCC, vol. 2 (Muse, 1971)
 * Apothecary Rx (Giant Step, 2004)
 * Good Bread Alley (Thirsty Ear Records, 2006)
 * Relativity Suite (JCOA, 1973)
 * Conception Vessel (ECM, 1973)
 * Coincide (Impulse!, 1974)
 * Manhattan Cycles (India Navigation, 1972)
 * Vietnam (ESP, 1972)
 * The People's Republic (A&M, 1975)
 * The Psyche (Mutable Music, 1975)
 * Positions 369 (Karma, 1977)
 * The Revolutionary Ensemble Recorded Live at Moosham Castle (Inner City, 1977)
 * And Now... (Pi, 2004)
 * Attica Blues
 * The Cry of My People
 * Black Gipsy
 * Too Much Sugar for a Dime