James Chance & The Contortions

James Chance, also known as James White (born James Siegfried, April 20, 1953 – June 18, 2024), was an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer. A key figure in no wave, Chance played a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene from the late 1970s on, in such bands as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks (as he appeared in the film Downtown 81), The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, and James Chance and Les Contortions.

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This Is Rong Music II Pt. 1 - 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Ze Records Story 1979 / 2009 - 2011-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Zevolution # 1 - Ze Edits Redux Album - 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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