Editing Jon Hassell (section)

{{Short description|American trumpeter (1937–2021)}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name                = Jon Hassell
| image               = JonHassell_Stockholm20090715.jpg
| caption             = Jon Hassell at Stockholm JazzFest 2009
| image_size          = 260px
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1937|3|22}}
| birth_place         = [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Tennessee]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2021|6|26|1937|3|22}}
| origin              = 
| instrument          = [[Trumpet]], [[Electronic musical instrument#Digital era 1980–2000|electronics]]
| genre               = [[world music|World]], [[ambient music|ambient]], [[avant-garde music|avant-garde]], [[minimal music|minimalism]], [[electroacoustic music|electroacoustic]]
| years_active        = 1968–2021
| label               = [[Editions EG]], Intuition, [[Water Lily Acoustics]], Lovely Music, [[All Saints Records|All Saints]], Ndeya
| associated_acts = [[La Monte Young]], [[Terry Riley]], [[Brian Eno]], [[Farafina]], [[Theatre of Eternal Music]], [[Marian Zazeela]], [[Techno Animal]], [[Ani DiFranco]], [[David Sylvian]], [[Ry Cooder]]
| website             = {{URL|https://jonhassell.com/}}
}}

'''Jon Hassell''' (March 22, 1937<ref name="ankeny">{{Cite web | last=Ankeny | first=Jason | title=Jon Hassell | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-hassell-p3295 | work=[[AllMusic]] | access-date= January 3, 2011 }}</ref> – June 26, 2021) was an American [[trumpet]] player and [[composer]]. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various [[world music|world ethnic]] traditions with modern [[electronic music|electronic]] techniques.<ref name="ankeny" /> The concept was first articulated on ''[[Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics]]'', his 1980 collaboration with [[Brian Eno]].

Born in Tennessee, Hassell studied contemporary [[classical music]] in New York and later in Germany under composer [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]. He subsequently worked with [[minimal music|minimalist]] composers [[Terry Riley]] (on a 1968 recording of ''[[In C]]'') and [[La Monte Young]] (as part of his [[Theatre of Eternal Music]] group), and studied under Hindustani singer [[Pandit Pran Nath]]. His association with [[Brian Eno]] in the early 1980s would introduce Hassell to a larger audience. He subsequently worked with musical artists such as [[Talking Heads]], [[David Sylvian]], [[Farafina]], [[Peter Gabriel]], [[Tears for Fears]], [[Ani DiFranco]], [[Techno Animal]], [[Ry Cooder]], [[Moritz von Oswald]], and [[Carl Craig]].<ref name="ankeny" />