We should all know the name Edmund T. Jenkins Allyson Devenish uncovers the remarkable story of an African American composer and musician who made his life in London and Paris in the early twentieth century. By DredieMann
Allyson Devenish uncovers the remarkable story of an African American composer and musician who made his life in London and Paris in the early twentieth century.“IT IS always a good moment to unearth a composer and their various contributions,” pianist, arranger and music director Allyson Devenish tells the Voice ahead of her programme, A Charlestonian Rhapsody: The Story of Edmund T Jenkins, being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this weekend.
As well as composing some of the earliest music in the European concert tradition to incorporate jazz rhythms and the folk melodies and spirituals of his home town, Jenkins was also wildly successful as a dance band leader and recorded some of the earliest British jazz records in 1921 playing clarinet and saxophone.His music, shipped back to the US after his death in 1926, remained almost entirely unperformed.
Getting deep, down in the research in order to bring the programme to life Devenish travelled to Charleston to hear about Jenkins’s roots and meet some of the people trying to bring his music the recognition it deserves.She said: “His work is unique in that so early on, he was able to successfully combine the music of his people and place with the compositional styles of European classical music.
Allyson Devenish traces Jenkin’s’musical life in London and Paris and returns some of his music to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied for seven years
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