- Aliases
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George Russell Septet
George Russell Sextet
- Real name
- George Allan Russell
- Born
- June 23, 1923
- Died
- July 29, 2009
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00027064303 3 works
00058876621 1 work
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
- Composer, music theorist, educator, and jazz pianist, although he started out as a drummer. His book, "The Lydian Concept of Tonal Organization" (1953) is generally considered to be the first major contribution in the field of music theory by a jazz musician.
- Related
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Bertil Lövgren Member of the George Russell Sextet
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