George Russell - The Remasters (All Tracks Remastered) '2021
Artist | George Russell Related artists |
Album name | The Remasters (All Tracks Remastered) |
Country | |
Date | 2021 |
Genre | Jazz |
Play time | 2:50:48 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
Media | CD |
Size | 1.07 GB / 393 MB |
Price | Download $8.95 |
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Tracklist: 01. The Stratus Seekers (Remastered) 02. Honesty (Remastered) 03. Chromatic Universe, Pt. 1 (Remastered 2017) 04. Blues in Orbit (Remastered) 05. Round Midnight (Remastered) 06. Kiges Tune (Remastered) 07. Chromatic Universe, Pt. 2 (Remastered 2017) 08. Pan-Daddy (Remastered) 09. Thoughts (Remastered) 10. Stereophrenic (Remastered) 11. The Lydiot (Remastered 2017) 12. Nardis (Remastered) 13. Waltz from Outer Space (Remastered 2017) 14. Ezz-Thetic (Remastered) 15. Chromatic Universe, Pt. 3 (Remastered 2017) 16. D.C. Divertimento (Remastered) 17. Stratusphunk (Remastered 2016) 18. You Are My Sunshine (Remastered) 19. Bent Eagle (Remastered 2016) 20. The Outer View (Remastered) 21. Kentucky Oysters (Remastered 2016) 22. Zig-Zag (Remastered) 23. Lambskins (Remastered 2016) 24. Au Privave (Remastered) 25. Things New (Remastered 2016) Â Read Full BiographyRussells first instrument was the drums, which he played in the Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps and at local clubs when he was in high school. At 19, he was hospitalized with tuberculosis, but he used the enforced inactivity to learn the craft of arranging from a fellow patient. Once back on his feet, he played with Benny Carter, but after being replaced on drums by Max Roach, Russell began to zero in on composing and arranging. He moved to New York to join the crowd of young firebrands who gathered in Gil Evans salon, and he was actually invited to play drums in Charlie Parkers band. But once again, he fell ill, finding himself in a Bronx hospital for 16 months (1945-1946), where he began to formulate the ideas for the Lydian Concept. Upon his recovery, Russell leaped into the embryonic fusion of bebop and Afro-Cuban rhythms by writing Cubana Be and Cubana Bop, which the Dizzy Gillespie big band recorded in 1947. He contributed arrangements to Claude Thornhill and Artie Shaw in the late 40s and wrote the first (and not the last) speculative scenario of a meeting between Charlie Parker and Igor Stravinsky, A Bird in Igors Yard, recorded by Buddy De Franco. While working on his Lydian theories, Russell dropped out of active music-making for a while, working at a sales counter in Macys when his book was published. But when he resumed composing in 1956, he had established himself as an influential force in jazz. Russells connection with Gunther Schuller resulted in the commission of All About Rosie for the 1957 Brandeis University jazz festival, and he also taught at the Lenox School of Jazz that Schuller co-founded. He formed a rehearsal sextet in the mid-50s that became known as the George Russell Smalltet, with Art Farmer, Bill Evans, Hal McKusick, Barry Galbraith, and various drummers and bassists. Their 1956 recording Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor) became a landmark of its time, and Russell continued to record intriguing LPs for Decca in the late 50s and Riverside in the early 60s. Another key album from this period, Ezz-Thetics, featured two important progressive players, Eric Dolphy and Don Ellis. Finding the American jazz scene too confining for his music, Russell left for Europe in 1963, living in Sweden for five years. From his new base, he toured Scandinavia with a new sextet of European players and received numerous commissions -- including a ballet based on Othello, a mass, and the orchestral suite Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature: 1980. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1969, he joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, where Schuller had started a jazz department, and this gave him a secure base from which to tour occasionally with his own groups. Russell stopped composing from 1972 to 1978 in order to finish a second volume on the Lydian Chromatic Concept. He led a 19-piece big band at the Village Vanguard for six weeks in 1978, played the Newport Jazz Festival when it was based in New York City, and made tours of Italy, the U.S. West Coast, and England in the 80s. Russells most imposing latter-day commissions included An American Trilogy and the monumental three-hour work Time Line for symphony orchestra, jazz ensembles, rock groups, choir, and dancers. In addition to The African Game and So What on Blue Note, Russell made recordings for Soul Note in the 70s and 80s and Label Bleu in the 90s, while continuing to teach at the New England Conservatory and leading his Living Time Orchestra big band into the 21st century. In 2005 George Russell & the Living Time Orchestras The 80th Birthday Concert, released on the Concept label, celebrated the legendary octogenarians contributions to the art of jazz with performances of some of his most groundbreaking extended compositions and arrangements. George Russell died in Boston on July 27, 2009 of complications from Alzheimers disease; he was 86 years old. ~ Richard S. Ginell
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- 2022 Ezz-thetics & The Stratus Seekers Revisited
- 2021 The Remasters [3]
- 2020 Live Rarities 1960
- 2019 Guitar with Orchestra
- 2012 Stratusphunk + The Stratus Seekers [UCCU-3175, Japanese Edition]
- 1985 The African Game
- 1983 So What
- 1982 New York Big Band
- 1977 Vertical Form VI
- 1968 Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
- 1966 The Essence Of George Russell
- 1962 The Outer View
- 1962 The Stratus Seekers
- 1961 Ezz-Thetics
- 1960, 1962 [2012] Stratusphunk / The Stratus Seekers
- 1960 Jazz In The Space Age
- 1960 Stratusphunk
- 1959 New York, N.Y.
- 1956 The Jazz Workshop
- 1956 The Complete Bluebird Recordings
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