George Russell | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | George Allen Russell |
Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | June 23, 1923
Died | July 27, 2009 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 86)
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, arranger |
Instrument(s) | Piano, drums |
Years active | 1947–2009 |
Website | www |
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).[1]