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Features Disc of the day
George Russell And His Orchestra
New York, N.Y.
(Verve, 1959)
Whodathought the Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organisation would sound so damn cool?
Most of us, when we take to bed in our early twenties, are pretty chuffed if we achieve anything other than griping, puking and kipping. But in 1945, when 22-year-old Cincinnati-born drummer George Russell was hospitalised with tuberculosis, he devised something so mind-boggling that some jazz scholars still debate as to whether it actually exists. The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization was intended as a system of composition for the post-bop jazz age, “based on grading intervals by distance of their pitches from a central note” (nope, me neither). Although it had parallels with both Gunther Schuller’s “third-stream” theory and Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s new modal sound, some say that only Russell fully understood what he was up to and the theoretical craziness has certainly scared listeners away in the past. However, an inability to understand what Russell’s up to only adds to the sense of wonder when you finally listen. What is this? Sitting somewhere between Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington, grand sprawl and beguiling detail, New York, N.Y. sounds like the city itself, with the jazz-raps of Jon Hendricks sending a never-bettered ensemble of Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Art Farmer, Milt Hinton, Bob Brookmeyer and Max Roach off into cross-town blasts of wild noise and narrow back-alleys of strange beauty, all contained within a tight island framework. Dig!
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 08/04/2008
Further Listening
George Russell – Ezz-thetics (Riverside)
John Lewis – European Windows (RCA)
Gil Evans – Out Of The Cool (Impulse!)
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