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Francis Wong

jazz saxophonist, flutist, and erhu player

From
United States
Since
present
Releases
4
  • avant-garde jazz
  • jazz
  • world fusion

About

Francis Wong (Chinese: 王世明; pinyin: Wáng Shìmíng) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and erhu player.

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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.

From Francis Wong on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Discography

Albums 3
Live 1

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Data from MusicBrainz, saved 11 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.