James Chance, No Wave Icon & the Contortions Saxophonist, Dies at 71

, the singer-saxophonist of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, who helped launch the No Wave scene in the late 1970s, has died. He was 71.News of Chance’s passing was confirmed by his brother, David Siegfried, and shared through the late punk-funk artists’s

Chance, who was known for blending jazz, punk and funk, died June 18 at Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in New York, according to the statement.Born James Alan Siegfried in Milwaukee, Chance began playing piano while attending a Catholic elementary school and later took up the alto saxophone in his late teenage years.

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