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George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on jazz rather than European music, in his book Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953).
Jul 30, 2009 · George Russell, a jazz composer, educator and musician whose theories led the way to radical changes in jazz in the 1950s and ’60s, died on Monday in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston....
Jul 28, 2009 · Composer, pianist, theorist, arranger, bandleader, teacher and jazz great George Russell died yesterday, Jul. 27, 2009, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
Jul 27, 2009 · George Russell was first and foremost a composer rather than an instrumentalist, and was one of the most important jazz theorists of the latter half of the 20th century. He first expressed himself musically on the drums in the drum and bugle corps.
Jul 28, 2009 · Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died. His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New...
George Russell is a hugely influential, innovative figure in the evolution of modern jazz, the music's only major theorist, one of its most profound composers, and a trail blazer whose ideas have transformed and inspired some of the greatest musicians of our time.
Dec 2, 2020 · And so, Duncan Heining, author of George Russell: The Story of an American Composer (Scarecrow, 2010) has returned, a decade after writing what was the definitive study (Arts Fuse review) of one of the great masters of jazz composition, to look again at his subject – and the result is a book that is significantly rethought, so much so that ...
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