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John von Seggern

Born: 1968

John von Seggern is a bassist, producer and DJ, relocated to Southern California after a decade spent performing and recording in Asia (Tokyo and Hong Kong) with some of the region's most influential artists. John von now lives in Los Angeles, where he has been playing bass at some of the city's top jazz clubs and doing electronic sound design for film projects.

In 2010, he produced a new album of electronic jazz, "Extreme Measures", a collaboration with West Coast musical innovators John Beasley, Steve Tavaglione, Gary Novak, and Walt Fowler under the band name Simplexity. He also contributed sound design effects and processing to Thomas Newman's Oscar-nominated soundtrack of the Pixar film WALL-E, as well as co-writing a live band score for forthcoming documentary "A Million Spokes". ... von Seggern first started playing music while a young student growing up in Nebraska, playing cello in the school orchestra. Turning to electric and then upright bass as a teenager, he got his first pro gigs in country bands playing street parties in small Midwestern prairie towns.

Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three)

By Jon Hassell

Label: Ndeya
Released: 2026
Track listing: Blue Ba-Ya; Club Gris-Gris; Broadway Boogie-Woogie; Electric Forest.

Music Is Invisible

By Jon Hassell

Label: Ndeya Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Blue Ba-Ya: Club Gris-Gris; Broadway Boogie-Woogie; Electric Forest.

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 ...

Bass Extraordinaire: John von Seggern / Bruno Raberg / Christopher Hale

by Doug Collette
October 23, 2023

In both its acoustic and electric form, the bass is too often overlooked in the context of musical performances both live and in studio. Yet it is this instrument that arguably confronts the greatest challenge of all in navigating arrangements and musicianship: specifically, to establish and maintain a middle ground of melody and rhythm that simultaneously ...

Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two

By Jon Hassell

Label: Ndeya
Released: 2020
Track listing: Fearless; Moons Of Titan; Unknown Wish: Delicado; Reykjavik; Cool Down Coda; Lunar; Timeless.

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 ...

Extreme Measures

By John von Seggern

Label: Vibration Institute Music
Released: 2010