Terry Jennings

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. 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. He influenced American composers Harold Budd and Peter Garland, as well as British composer Howard Skempton. In the 1970s, he turned to a neo-romantic style. Jennings died in San Pablo, California in 1981.

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* Garland, Peter, and La Monte Young. 2001. "Jennings, Terry". "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
* Patterson, Ben. 1968. "Terry Jennings: Making of a Musician, 1968". "Village Voice" (11 January).