Departure of an Ezz-thetic Stratusphunk

What Bela Bartok and Arnold Schoenberg are to classical music, George Russell is to jazz. 

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, band leader, educator and theorist; Russell pioneered fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms to jazz and liberating its approach to improvisation from the shackles of chord changes.

Mr. Russell died yesterday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 86.

Developed during the fifties, his theory called "The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" has influenced jazz innovators like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. This important work on modal music, which many consider ahead of its time earned him numerous accolades including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1989.

The entire Cultchas crew mourn the passing of a remarkable man. He will always be remembered for his stratuspheric contribution to the arts.

(1) The birth of Afro-Cuban Jazz is credited alongside Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie at the Carnegie Hall in 1947; Cubana be, Cubana bop.
(2) Image was re-shot and cropped from the LP cover of George Russell Sextet at Beethoven Hall (MPS); Original photo by Ove Alstrom, graphics by Gigi Berendt.
(3) Video posted is from youtube. With kind permission from JazzVideoGuy, Mr. Bret Primack.

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