New York
James Chance Dies at 71
With influential bands including the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Chance was a lynchpin of the 1970s no wave scene and beyond in New York
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 illness. His brother David Siegfried, organizer of a GoFu... [2836 chars]