Terry Jennings

Jennings started his professional musical career in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s playing jazz in local clubs as a teenager.

[1] He also studied with Robert Erickson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts.

He became associated with both Terry Riley, Dennis Johnson and Richard Maxfield whose Wind for Tape and Saxophone was composed as a portrait of Jennings.

Jennings was active as both composer and performer in New York City starting in 1960, where he worked with the James Waring Dance Company and with La Monte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music.

Piece for Cello and Saxophone is a reflection on a handful of chords and melodic patterns modulating through a chorale-like progression in very slow motion.

[5][6] Jennings' music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, including concerts in New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles.