Fourth World music trumpeter Jon Hassell dies aged 84

"In his pursuit of something he came to call Fourth World music Jon Hassell exerted an influence on his contemporaries that went far beyond the immediate popularity of his own work. To create “a contemporary coffee-coloured classical music”, Hassell drew together strands of music from around the world to make something that, without compromising its own identity, seemed to belong everywhere" - Guardian writes in the obituary to the trumpeter and composer.