George Russell
George Russell
George Allen Russellwas 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...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth23 June 1923
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