Jazz Articles about Jon Hassell

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Jon Hassell: Music Is Invisible

by Doug Collette
October 16, 2026

His profile elevated for the world to see and hear as Brian Eno's creative partner on Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Editions EG/Polydor, 1980), trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell went on to make a name for himself with a litany of increasingly ambitious projects work, not only under his own name, but in other collaborative scenarios such as Dressing for Pleasure (Warner, 1994). Hassell even deigned to perform live as the years wore on and Music Is Invisible is ...

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Jon Hassell: Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three)

by Maciej Stasiowski
October 6, 2026

When Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One), Jon Hassell's first record in nine years, which was announced back in 2018, a new era in the trumpeter's career seemed to have opened. Furthermore, the LP came with its own methodology. The cut-and-paste retrieval of archival material overlaid with more recent instrumental parts promised a polyvalent and invigorating body of new work. The approach meant to evoke pentimento technique in painting--the bleeding-through of previous elements of the sonic painting onto the surface ...

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Jon Hassell: Maarifa Street

by Geno Thackara
September 7, 2024

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Chris May’s Best Releases Of 2020

by Chris May
December 7, 2020

Not the best year for live gigs in London, but Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat Orchestra just made it under the wire, lighting up the Jazz Cafe in late January. Rather like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Sosimi's band has form as an incubator of young talent. A recent star in the making was trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, who has since been picked up by Ezra Collective and by drummer and bandleader Moses Boyd. Tonight's new name to watch was singer Sahra Gure. Topmost ...

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Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two

by Mark Sullivan
August 5, 2020

Visionary trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell presents another gift from his late career. The third release on his own Ndeya label, it follows the re-release of his debut album Vernal Equinox (Ndeya, 2020) and is a sequel to Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Ndeya, 2018). The structure is a bit different, still eight tracks, but organized as a series of Scenes. The personnel is more diverse as well. In addition to a core group of Rick Cox (electric guitar, bass clarinet, ...

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Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two

by Chris May
July 13, 2020

By the time even the most radical musicians reach their ninth decade, few are any longer making cutting-edge work. But trumpeter, electronicist and composer Jon Hassell, a collaborator with Terry Riley and La Monte Young in the 1960s and the creator of Fourth World music in the 1970s, remains as venturesome as ever. Much of Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two was recorded during the sessions for Hassell's lustrous Listening To Pictures: Pentimento Volume One (Ndeya, 2018). ...

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Vernal Equinox

by Doug Collette
May 10, 2020

In making Vernal Equinox available on vinyl for the first time in forty-two years and on CD for the first time in three decades, Jon Hassell's 1977 album has been fully remastered for its updated release on the artist's own Ndeya label. This first commercially released work by Hassell was, by many accounts, an early glimpse into a sound that would later go on to be known as 'Fourth World,' a mix of electronics, jazz, classical Indian music field recordings ...