[78-L] George Russell

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

That's more like it. Thanks, Uncle Dave.

BC
Le 29 juil. 09, à 05:47, David Lewis a écrit :

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> Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
>>> George Russell has died
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>> Which one?     Julian Vein
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> Dr. B wrote:
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> Could it have been Davy Crockett's friend, you know, the one played by
> Buddy Ebsen in the Disney version?
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> Mike (collected full sets of BOTH series of Davy Crockett cards when I
> was 10) Biel
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> No, this George Russell had nothing to do with Davy Crockett. He was  
> an innovative and original jazz composer whose system for  
> improvisation inspired Miles Davis' Kind of Blue; Russell composed the  
> tune "All About Rosie." He was a native of Cincinnati.
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> He did work on 78s also. He did the arrangement for "Cubana Be Cubana  
> Bop" by Dizzy Gillespie in 1946; I think that came out on Victor.  
> Russell arranged "A Bird in Igor's Yard" for Buddy DeFranco in 1949  
> which was recorded for Capitol but not released by them at the time.  
> It came out in the early 70s; in Sweden first, then in the US. Take my  
> word for it Mike; those are some great, pioneering efforts in jazz.
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> His best work was in the early LP era; "Jazz Workshop" (RCA),  
> "Ezz-Thetic" (Riverside), "Jazz in the Space Age," "N.Y. N.Y." and  
> "Live at the Five Spot" (Decca) are all really terrific kind of  
> bent-up, fractal takes on the mainstream/hard bop sound,  
> lydian-chromatic theory or not. I was thinking about it earlier today  
> and I probably listen to more George Russell than any other bop era  
> artist except for Diz, Monk and Bud Powell.
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> I will miss him, tho it's been a long time since he's produced  
> anything; since maybe the mid-90s, and that stuff wasn't his strongest  
> suit. I will not miss him as much as I do my Dad though, who died on  
> the 8th. This has been a cruel month for that sort of thing. Dad liked  
> George Russell and I played some of George's music on the memorial  
> radio tribute for my Dad.
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> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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