George Russell
American jazz pianist and composer
United States • 1923-06-23 – 2009-07-27
Biography
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).
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Out Of The Cool
1961
Portrait Of Art Farmer
1958
Living Time
1972
New York, N.Y.
1959
Solid
1979
Svengali
1973
Portrait Of Sheila
1963
Ezz-thetics
1961
East Coasting
1957
Classic Jazz Piano (1927-1957)
1988
The Fabulous Pleyel Jazz Concert Vol. 1
1953
The African Game
1985
Outer Thoughts
1975
Joe Cocker / With A Little Help From My Friends
1972
The Esoteric Circle
1971
Gil Evans
1971
The Greatest Of Dizzy Gillespie
1961
New York Big Band
1982
Listen To The Silence
1973
The Essence Of George Russell
1971
Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
1971
Joy
1970
The Outer View
1962
Credited work
950 releases · 136 albums · active 1953–2026
- Performance · 1,855
- Other credits · 85
- Production · 68
Studios: Plaza Sound Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Webster Hall · Beethovensaal Liederhalle, Stuttgart
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Miles Davis
- Dizzy Gillespie
- George Russell Sextet
- Gil Evans
- Lee Konitz
- George Russell And His Orchestra
- Hal McKusick