Terry Jennings

Terry Jennings (1940-1981) was an American composer and saxophonist, born in the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles. A friend of La Monte Young from his teenage years, he started writing in a minimal manner in the late 1950s, with slow pieces built on sustained tones and repetition. He also played saxophone in Young's Theatre of Eternal Music. His later music moved towards a melodic, neo-romantic style. He died in San Pablo, California, in 1981. Jennings studied saxophone at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Art.