Jon Hassell Quartet on tour

| Agency proposals | 2005-06-30

Jon Hassell 4t
Jon Hassell (trumpet/keys/laptop)
Peter Freeman (bass, laptop)
Rick Cox (guitar, Fx, laptop)
Eivind Aarset (guitar)

new album Maarifa Street 2005
on tour in November 2005 & in Spring 2006

Composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell is the visionary creator of a style of music he describes as Fourth World, a mysterious, unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. In the last two decades, his connoisseur recordings, built around a completely unique "vocal" trumpet style have inspired a generation of collaborators like Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kronos Quartet, Ry Cooder and most recently, director Wim Wenders for whom he and Bono did the soundtrack to the film, "The Million Dollar Hotel."

His last recording, Fascinoma, inspired a new generation of European trumpet players like Erik Truffaz, Paolo Fresu, and Nils Petter Molvaer who have all pointed to the depth of his influence. In April 2002, Jon Hassell led a group consisting of Senegalese world music superstar Baaba Maal, top DJ-Producer Howie B., and former Miles Davis keyboardist John Beasley in a world premiere of new music at London's Barbican Centre.

Recent Montreal, Milan and Paris concerts by Hassell's new group (with special guests Paolo Fresu and Dhafer Youssef) become the raw material for magical transformation in his eagerly awaited 2005 release, Maarifa Street / Magic Realism 2 another difficult-to-define musical fantasy stretched across geography and time as was its 1983 namesake, "Aka-Darbari-Java / Magic Realism".

"It's difficult to think what contemporary music would sound like without his influence. ...there's no doubt that Jon Hassell has had an effect on contemporary music as important as Miles Davis or Jimi He! ndrix or James Brown or the Velvet Underground." THE WIRE
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