(1957-04-13)April 13, 1957 San Francisco, CA, U.S.
Genres
Jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician
community organizer
composer
professor of Asian American Studies
Instrument(s)
Tenor saxophone
flute
erhu
Years active
1982 - present
Labels
Asian Improv Arts
Soul Note
Buzz
Southport
4 A.M.
Eremite
Grex
FPE
Website
www.franciswong.net
Musical artist
Francis Wong (Chinese: 王世明; pinyin: Wáng Shìmíng) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and erhu player.
Wong is of Chinese descent; his father is from Shanghai and his mother is Cantonese. He specializes in the fusion of free jazz and Asian musics, and is a central member in the Asian American jazz movement.[1] He has worked with Glenn Horiuchi, Jon Jang, John Tchicai, James Newton, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Brown, and Liu Qi-Chao. He and Jon Jang founded Asian Improv Records in 1987 (now Asian Improv aRts) and both have recorded albums for the label.[1]
FrancisWong (Chinese: 王世明; pinyin: Wáng Shìmíng) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and erhu player. Wong is of Chinese descent; his father is...
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high pay. Then, his mother asked him to become a beggar. So, he went to Wong Tai Sin, a famous temple in Hong Kong, to observe those beggars there. He...
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Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, John Tchicai, Art Davis, FrancisWong, Miya Masaoka, Tatsu Aoki, William Roper, Mark Izu, and San Jose Taiko...
performing with Max Roach, David Murray (saxophonist), James Newton, FrancisWong, and Fred Ho, among numerous others. Jang lives in San Francisco, California...
Southport Records. On the album, Moye and Aoki are joined by saxophonist FrancisWong and flutist Joel Brandon. In a review for All About Jazz, Jim Santella...
FrancisWong Stadium • Hilo, HI W 6–2 1–0 — February 1 at Hawaii–Hilo FrancisWong Stadium • Hilo, HI W 8–5 2–0 — February 2 at Hawaii–Hilo Francis Wong...
saxophonist FrancisWong, drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Tatsu Aoki. The All About Jazz review by Jeff Stockton states "On second saxophone, Wong sounds like...
Corbett 1986, p. 124. Conboy 2003, pp. 156. Conboy 2003, pp. 93–95. Chan, Francis; Wong, Phyllis (16 September 2011). "Saga of communist insurgency in Sarawak"...
Winter 1939- X X Jazz, world music Don Wise 1957- x X R&B, soul FrancisWong X X Jazz Chris Wood 1944-1983 X X X X Rock Phil Woods 1931-2015 X X Bebop...
Francisco Writers Corps. She has performed with Max Roach, Herbie Lewis, FrancisWong, and Jon Jang among others in San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Houston...
of State: Office of the Historian. Retrieved 8 January 2013. Chan, Francis; Wong, Phyllis (16 September 2011). "Saga of communist insurgency in Sarawak"...
January 2013, the Feast of St Francis de Sales, by Pope Francis. He is fully styled as His Grace Most Reverend Datuk John Wong, Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu...
Complex, with AACM trombonist George Lewis and Asian Improv instigator FrancisWong. In his review for AllMusic, David R. Adler states "His cerebral compositional...
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