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Jon Hassell

June 2021

  • Jon Hassell At Zankel Hall<br>American Electronic and World Music composer and musician Jon Hassell plays trumpet and electronics as he leads the group Maarifa Street in a performance of 'Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street' at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, New York, New York, February 10, 2009. (Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images)

    Jon Hassell obituary

    American trumpeter and composer best known for his Fourth World music and his celebrated collaboration with Brian Eno
  • Alexis Petridis

    Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno

    Alexis Petridis
    The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads
  • Jon Hassell in 2009

    Jon Hassell, avant garde US composer, dies aged 84

    Family and fellow musicians pay tribute to inventor of influential ‘fourth world’ musical aesthetic

July 2020

  • Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell, music's great globetrotter: 'Be more aware of the rest of the world!'

    The 83-year-old is heralded by everyone from Bono to Basquiat for his ‘fourth world’ vision for music – and pop has caught up with him

December 2018

  • Intriguing fusions … Poliça, Lubomyr Melnyk, Laurie Anderson.

    Best culture 2018
    Life, death and cosmic jazz: 2018's best contemporary classical albums

    From Jóhann Jóhannsson to Laurie Anderson, via Poliça and Nils Frahm, musicians of all ages contributed vital music to the genre

May 2018

  • Jon Hassell 2018 photo credit Roman Koval 2000

    Contemporary album of the month – Jon Hassell: Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume I)

    Hassell’s ‘fourth world’ fusion of hi-tech minimalism with world rhythms proves the 81-year-old is still experimental after all these years

April 2009

  • Jon Hassell: Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street

    You can lose yourself in this: it's the acceptable face of ambience, says John L Walters

November 2007

  • The debt I owe to Jon Hassell

    Brian Eno: Hassell's Vernal Equinox fascinated me. It was a dreamy, strange, meditative music that was inflected by Indian, African and South American music, but also seemed located in the lineage of tonal minimalism. It was a music I felt I'd been waiting for.
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