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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

George Russell

George Allen Russell 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).

Musician | June 23, 1923 - July 27, 2009

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Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

George Russell

George Russell

We become what we habitually contemplate

George Russell

George Russell

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

George Russell

George Russell

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth. — © George Russell

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

George Russell

George Russell

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

George Russell

George Russell

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

George Russell

George Russell

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

George Russell

George Russell

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