arrow_back
menu
Jon Hassell

Birthday:

03-22-1937

Deathday:

06-26-2021 (84 years)

Birthplace:

Memphis, TN

Biography
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.
Their works
  • Release  swap_vert
  • Title  swap_vert
  • Ratings  swap_vert
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down