About James Jenkins

MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:27 pm

Many of you don't know much about James,here is a taste...

http://www.bodyandsouljax.com/Documents ... rticle.pdf

clagar777 · Post by **clagar777** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:45 pm

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:56 pm

Mike, thanks for posting the James Jenkins link, and for your remarks in the "Cut York" thread. This guy sounds like a real mensch, in addition to being a fabulous tubist.

This is the kind of post that that makes TubeNet worthwhile.

Cheers,
Allen

sc_curtis · Post by **sc_curtis** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:46 am

Great article about a great man. Thanks for sharing!

EQueg · Post by **EQueg** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:33 am

thank you Mike for being far more eloquent and tastefull than I ever could. Pardon me if my passion for the freindship that Mr. Jenkins has bestowed upon me is beyond the meager words that I could express. He is a great man, one greater than I could hope to be and deserves the respect that apparently is only earned on this site by frequent posting. I will relate one story that speaks to his character....My brother died in 2001 about 2 months after 9/11. I had a BQ gig with the river city brass(jacksonville,fl...the state band of florida) and called Mr. Jenkins the day my brother had an anurism in his brain to ask him advice on dealing with the situation. He told me to be with my family and said immediatly that he would do anything he could to help without question...I asked him to step in for me on the gig and he did so without hesitation. enough said. I AM A NOBODY in the tuba world without doubt but he stepped in for me out of friendship, not because it would further his career or matter in any way to him outside of his commitment to me as a friend. I'm not saying that this alone makes him some sort of hero but how many pro's certainly any as busy as he is would do something of that nature simply out of friendship? I don't know the answer but I do know what he did for me and appreciate more than words could say what it meant to me at that time of need. My relationship with Mr. Jenkins goes back more than 10 years, and to clarify I call him Mr. not out of any desire of his but out of the respect and humility that I have for him as a person....I haven't earned the right in my own view to address him by his first name,I have substituted for him on more than one occasion in the JSO, and so consider myself a peer of sorts but never would I deign to call myself his equal as a (hu)man, a musician or a tuba player...though this certianly won't keep me from trying.

ubq · Post by **ubq** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:39 am

Thanks for sharing it with us! He's a great man!