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James Chance
Milwaukee, United States
James Chance is a musician from Milwaukee, United States. They also recorded with James Chance and the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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Biography
American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer, born April 20, 1953 in Milwaukee, USA – died June 18, 2024, in New York, USA
A key figure in no wave, Chance played a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene from the late 1970s on, in such bands as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks (as he appeared in the film Downtown 81), The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, and James Chance and Les Contortions.
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James Chance and the Contortions
James Chance under another name — MusicBrainz marks this project eponymous.
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
A project James Chance was part of. Former member.
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