George russell
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).
1961 --- Jazz composer George Russell at the piano during the recording of his Ezz-thetics album at the Riverside records studio. --- Image by © Steve Schapiro/Corbis
