Jon Hassell
Composer · Died June 26, 2021, aged 84 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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 teacher's Kirana vocal mastery into a new trumpet sound and style.
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Biography from TMDB.
- March 22, 1937
- June 26, 2021 (aged 84)
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Composer
- 4 on MovieCove · 5 credits in all
Known for
Where can I watch Jon Hassell's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
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Filmography
5 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Brilliant Trees Sessions (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Owning Mahowny(2003)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
The Million Dollar Hotel(2000)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Wild Side(1995)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films