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Jon Hassell was born March 22, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee and received his master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. During this time he became involved in European serial music, especially the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen. After finishing Eastman he enrolled in the Cologne Course for New Music where he met avant-guardists Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay.

Returning to the States in 1967 he met Terry Riley in Buffalo, New York, and performed on the first recording of Riley’s seminal work In C in 1968. He pursued his Ph.D. in musicology in Buffalo and performed in La Monte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music in New York City, contributing to the 1974 LP Dream House 78′ 17″.

Back in Buffalo in the early Seventies, Hassell was introduced to the music of Indian Pandit Pran Nath, His work with Nath awoke his appetite for traditional music of the world. He collaborated with Brian Eno, worked with David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, contributed to Tears For Fears album The Seeds of Love, and composed for film and television.

Trumpeter Jon Hassell, who coined the term Fourth World, utilized circular breathing and electronic processing, died from natural causes on June 26, 2021, at the age of 84.

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