Leroy Jenkins

Mixed Quintet is the record on which violinist Leroy Jenkins, a member of the Chicago AACM since 1964 and a founder of the Revolutionary Ensemble in the 1970s, writes for a chamber group of winds and strings rather than a jazz band. The line-up is close to a classical wind quintet, with flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and French horn around his violin, and no bass or drums at all. It comes from a 1979 New York session that Black Saint released only in 1983.

Jenkins recorded the two pieces on March 22 and 23, 1979 at CI Studios in New York City, with Elvin Campbell as engineer; the tapes were mixed by Vince Traina at Sound Heights Studio in Brooklyn on March 18, 1982. Jenkins co-produced, Giovanni Bonandrini was executive producer, and the liner notes are by Bob Blumenthal. Around him are flautist James Newton, French horn player John Clark, J.D. Parran on clarinet and Marty Ehrlich on bass clarinet. Shapes, Textures, Rhythms, Moods Of Sound runs a little over nineteen minutes and Quintet #3 just over eighteen. Carman Moore, writing in NewMusicBox after Jenkins's death in 2007, noted that just as he pushed the limits of jazz he also "pushed the limits of classical music".

This is the Black Saint CD 120060-2, which Discogs lists as a 1997 reissue of the album first released on LP in 1983, with the booklet reproducing the artwork and liner notes of the original LP.