Jon Hassell
Jon Hassell obituary
American trumpeter and composer best known for his Fourth World music and his celebrated collaboration with Brian Eno
Richard Williams
28, Jun, 2021 @3:41 PM
Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno
The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads
Alexis Petridis
27, Jun, 2021 @6:51 PM
Jon Hassell, avant garde US composer, dies aged 84
Family and fellow musicians pay tribute to inventor of influential ‘fourth world’ musical aesthetic
Laura Snapes
27, Jun, 2021 @12:13 PM
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
Alexis Petridis
28, Jul, 2020 @9:30 AM
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
John Lewis
07, Dec, 2018 @8:30 AM
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
John Lewis
25, May, 2018 @7:30 AM
Jazz review: 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
John L Walters
02, Apr, 2009 @11:01 PM
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell's influence on his work
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.
Brian Eno
09, Nov, 2007 @11:49 PM
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