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Tuesday, 23 June 2015
92nd birthday of George Russell
(Born 23 June 1923, Cincinnati, US)
Pianist, bandleader, conductor, versatile composer (including, especially, The Jazz Workshop, Jazz in the Space Age, Statusphunk, Ezz-thetics, The Outer View, The Essence of George Russell, Listen to the Silence, Live in an American Time Spiral, The African Game) and very influential music theorist, author of the classic, The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953)
(George Russell Sextet,
“Honesty” [personnel: Russell. Piano;
Don Ellis, trumpet; Dave Baker, trombone; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone; Steve Swallow, Joe Hunt, bass; drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 8
May 1961])
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