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| | The History of Jazz Music. Leroy Jenkins: biography, discography, review, links |
 | | Leroy Jenkins played an arsenal of instruments including synthesizer while Sirone and Jerome Cooper used all sorts of percussion instruments. |
 | | Jenkins reneged on that strand of his art to form the electric crossover band Sting (Terry Jenoure on second violin, Brandon Ross on electric guitar, James Emery on amplified acoustic guitar, Alonzo Gardner on electric bass, Kamal Sabir on drums), whose Urban Blues (january 1984) offered a hodgepodge of funk, pop, gospel, rhythm'n'blues and hip-hop. |
 | | But Jenkins was also composing classical works: the dance opera Mother of Three Sons (1991), the jazz-rap opera Fresh Faust, the cantata The Negro Burial Ground, the multimedia opera Editorio - The Three Willies (1996). |
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