Jon Hassell

American trumpeter composer and author 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 teachers Kirana vocal mastery into a new trumpet sound and style