James Chance, the punk-funk singer-saxophonist who helped kickstart the “No Wave” movement, has died at age 71. Chance’s brother, David Siegfried, confirmed the musician’s death in a ...

James Chance, the confrontational ... who helped start the No Wave movement of the late 1970s in New York City, died Tuesday in New York, his Facebook page confirmed. He was 71.

By Jon Pareles James Chance, the singer, saxophonist and composer who melded punk, funk and free jazz into bristling dance music as the leader of the Contortions, died on Tuesday in Manhattan.

James Chance, the bandleader and singer-saxophonist of influential punk-funk groups including the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, died yesterday in New York after a long period of ...

James Chance, the bandleader and singer-saxophonist of influential punk-funk groups including the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, died yesterday in New York after a long period of ...

No-wave legend and The Contortions frontman James Chance has died at the age of 71. The news was shared via James Chance’s official Facebook page today (June 19) after confirmation from his ...

By Mitchell Peters James Chance, 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 ...