Visionary Artist Award (2006) Jazz Hero - Jazz Journalists Association (2017) Discography As Leader or Co-Leader As Ensemble Performer References Further reading Asai, Susan Miyo. 1995. "Transformations of Tradition: Three Generations of Japanese American Music Making." The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 429–453. Dessen, Michael. 2006. “Asian Americans and Creative Music Legacies”. Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, Vol 1, No 3. Fellezs, Kevin. 2007. “Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz ." In Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, edited by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu and Mimi Thi Nguyen (pp. 69–108). Durham, ND: Duke University Press. Hung, Eric. 2012. "Sounds of Asian American Trauma and Cultural Trauma: Jazz Reflections on the Japanese Internment." MusiCultures, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 1–29. Kajikawa, Loren. 2012. “The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz." In Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries, edited by David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Daniel Goldmark (pp. 190–217). Berkeley: University of California Press. Paget-Clarke, Nic. 1998 (February 25). "A Conversation with Jon Jang and Francis Wong: The 10th Anniversary of Asian Improv." In Motion Magazine. Wong, Deborah. 2004. Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music. New York: Routledge. Wong, Francis. 2017. "Exploring Asian Improv." M.A. Thesis, San Francisco State University. External links Official Website: FrancisWong.net American musicians of Chinese descent American people of Chinese descent American jazz saxophonists American male saxophonists American jazz flautists Living people People from South San Francisco, California Erhu players Musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area 21st-century American saxophonists American male jazz musicians 21st-century American male musicians 1957 births 21st-century flautists