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Jon Hassell

real name Jon M. Hassell

American trumpet player and composer

Memphis, United States · 1937-03-22 – 2021-06-26

Jon Hassell is credited on 628 releases across 119 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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American trumpeter, composer and author
Born: 22nd March 1937 Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Died: 26th June 2021 Los Angeles, California, USA
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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