Jon Hassell

...zarb player Pedram Khavar Zamini, Norwegian percussionist Helge Norbakken, a Moroccan vocalist, Amina Alaoui and music alchemist Jon Hassell into a soundworld that unfurls around his imagination. Commissioned by Oslo Club Cosmopolite for its...

In this article: Jon Balke, Meeting of the minds, Linguistics, and Iberian Peninsula

Dream Theory in Malaya : Fourth World Volume Two is a World music album by Jon Hassell, released in 1981. It is the "sequel" to his collaboration with Brian Eno, Fourth World Vol. 1 : Possible Musics, which was released the previous year.

In this article: Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, Possible Musics, Bob Lanois, Dream Theory in Malaya, and Hamilton, Ontario

...American pianist/keyboardist. Budd, who turned 73 this year, made his name in the 1980s, collaborating on various projects with Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, XTC's Andy Partridge, and Hector Zazou. Along with Eno, he is credited as one of the...

In this article: Harold Budd, Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Robert Fripp, Ether, Hector Zazou, Andy Partridge, and XTC

...a musical landscape between ambient, nu jazz, and contemporary classical. His warm "vocal" trumpet tone recalls his label mate Jon Hassell, as well as Japanese Shakuhachi flute music. The album is bookended with melancholy spoken vignettes...

In this article: Arnold Lobel, DVD, Sugar, Arve Henriksen, Slings and Arrows, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, and HarperCollins

The jazz trumpeter Jon Hassell's embrace of electronic effects and extensive post-production has positioned him curiously. He is an acknowledged inheritor of Miles Davis and Teo Macero's experiments in electric jazz and studio-aided collage...

In this article: In C, Blue Period, Miles Davis, Ambient, Rigor, and Gil Evans

World Cafe, May 6, 2009 - The world-renowned trumpet visionary Jon Hassell composes what he calls Fourth World music. It's an innovative sound that melds various ethnic styles, particularly African and Asian, with electronic techniques. On...

In this article: Ambient music, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, and Brian Eno

He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music he calls it Fourth...

In this article: Brian Eno, Arve Henriksen, Manfred Eicher, ECM, New York, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Terry Riley

...of action, the past couple years have seen a significant increase in the public exposure of trumpeter Jon Hassell, especially in Europe. Hassell may not be as well-known, say, as Miles Davis, but amongst a broadening group of musicians and...

In this article: ECM, Possible Musics, Multidisciplinary approach, Caravan, Arve Henriksen, and Nils Petter Molvaer

...who'll be at UCLA's Royce Hall tonight, stretch the boundaries of jazz music with their hybrid sound. Trumpet player-composer Jon Hassell is an artist with endless enthusiasm for the ways music and art can connect -- he's best known for...

In this article: Pran Nath, Karlheinz Stockhausen, UCLA, Les Baxter, Los Angeles Times, and La Monte Young

...the main art museum. He called it Big Ears, and programmed it with performers like Philip Glass, Antony and the Johnsons, Jon Hassell, the Necks and Fennesz. So what connects these artists? Mr. Capps is trying to claim the space where...

In this article: Philip Glass, Tennessee, Antony and the Johnsons, and New York