Jon Hassell

Born: 1937-03-22

American trumpeter, composer and author. Creator of a style of music he described as Fourth World, a mysterious, unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. After composition studies and university degrees in the USA, he went to Europe to study electronic and serial music with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Several years later, he returned to New York where his first recordings were made with minimalist masters La Monte Young and Terry Riley, through whom he met the Hindustani raga master, Pandit Pran Nath, and embarked on a lifelong quest to transmute his teacher's Kirana vocal mastery into a new trumpet sound and style.


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The Million Dollar Hotel

as Hollow
Released: 2000-02-09

A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los...

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Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth

as uncredited
Released: 2011-05-17

Musician, composer, producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist; probably best known for...

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Seal MTV Unplugged

as self
Released: 1996-04-09

Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, April 9th, 1996. 1 Stone Free (Jimi...

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