Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Jazz Modern jazz cuts a wide stylistic swath, making the music difficult to categorize or define. Today's composers, such as Jon Hassell , Ken Vandermark and Darcy James Argue , are considered leaders and innovators -- all brilliant men with vision whose music may sound vastly different but whose wellspring of creative ideas are undoubtedly drawn from the same inspirational source. Jon Hassell may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker, he may not have the [...]