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. He was ...

George Russell, a composer, educator and theorist who had a powerful effect on the jazz forms and methods that have evolved from the 1950s to the present, has died. He was 86.

Live Review George Russell’s New York N.Y. Receives World Premiere At Milton Court. by Chris May September 29, 2023. Guildhall Induction Jazz Orchestra & Choir Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall ...

It was May 1945, the war was still on, Bebop was at its height in New York and George Russell and his two friends, Little Bird and Little Diz, had just arrived in the city. With fifteen dollars in ...

June 23rd was George Russell's centenary. He was a composer and arranger and one of jazz's most important figures of the post-war years of the 20th century. He is credited as being the first jazz ...

George Russell: The Story of an American Composer Duncan Heining 376 pages, hardback ISBN: 978-0-8108-6997-4 Scarecrow Press 2010 It's been out for a couple years now, but any book about American ...

BOSTON, MA -- Legendary composer/bandleader and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master George Russell is proud to announce the October 18th release of his new live concert recording, The ...

George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra 80th Birthday Concert Concept Publishing 2005 . Now and then in recent years, George Russell (born 1923) has attacked what he considers backward-looking ...

George is the reason I ever recorded. He heard me and believed in me. Sadly, George was never a name in most homes but he sure rates the highest in mine along with Bird. I'll miss him.---Sheila Jordan ...

George Russell article by AAJ Staff, published on January 22, 2006 at All About Jazz. Find more Profile articles. All About Jazz Essentials. ... · George Russell - The Jazz Workshop (Bluebird-RCA, ...

Around this point, Russell was commissioned to write a new piece by the Boston Jazz Coalition. As I note in Stratusphunk: The Life and Works of George Russell, The African Game (Blue Note 1985) was ...