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Tatsu Aoki
Tatsu Aoki
American musician
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Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka
American composer
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Mark Izu
Mark Izu
American musician
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Z'EV
Z'EV
American percussionist
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Fred Ho
Fred Ho
American jazz musician, author, and activist
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Gerald Oshita
Gerald Oshita
American musician
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Anton Schwartz
Anton Schwartz
American musician
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Anthony Brown
Anthony Brown
jazz musician
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Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
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Ellen Fullman
Ellen Fullman
American composer
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Dana Leong
Dana Leong
musical artist
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George Lewis
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
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James Newton
James Newton
American flautist, composer, and conductor
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Lukas Ligeti
Lukas Ligeti
composer
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Miguel Zenón
Miguel Zenón
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist
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Gino Robair
Gino Robair
American musician
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Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste
American cross-genre musician
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Rent Romus
Rent Romus
American musician
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Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia
American musician
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Todd Cochran
Todd Cochran
American musician
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Buddy Collette
Buddy Collette
American musician
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Randy Raine-Reusch
Randy Raine-Reusch
composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist from Canada
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Wayne Peterson
Wayne Peterson
American composer
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Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
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David Murray
David Murray
American jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet)
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Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
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Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
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Meklit Hadero
Meklit Hadero
Ethiopia-born, U.S. based singer
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Matt Ingalls
Matt Ingalls
American musician
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Ava Mendoza
Ava Mendoza
American musician
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Cory Wong
Cory Wong
American guitarist and songwriter
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The Klezmorim
The Klezmorim
klezmer band
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Bobby Bradford
Bobby Bradford
American musician
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Richard Stoltzman
Richard Stoltzman
American musician
Francis Wong
American jazz musician

Francis Wong

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American jazz musician
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Music

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. 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.

Wong lives in South San Francisco, California.