George Russell : East Side Medley

"East Side Medley" is another piece from George Russell's masterful late 1950s recording, "New York N.Y." It weaves together 'Autumn In New York' and 'How About You'.

"Jazz composer and theorist George Russell began his career as a drummer, but quit the drums after being replaced by Max Roach in a band led by saxophonist Benny Carter. Russell turned his focus to harmony, which he had learned from a fellow patient while hospitalized in 1941 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. After moving to New York in the 1940s, he fell in with a crowd that consisted of Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and other jazz greats. A conversation with Davis prompted Russell to develop his Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. Published in 1953, the theory places the lydian mode as the scale central to jazz harmony, and allowed for a new approach to improvisation based on chord/scale relationships. George Russell's innovations were a large part of the bridge between bebop and the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and helped pave the way for contemporary theories of improvisation and composition." ~Jacob Teichroew

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[paganmaestro]

Thanks. The full session lineup is: Art Farmer, Doc Severinson, Joe Ferrante, Joe Wilder, Ernie Royal (tpt); Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland, Tom Mitchell (tbn); John Coltrane (on 'Manhattan' only), Benny Golson, Al Cohn (ts); Hal McKusick, Phil Woods (as); Sol Schlinger, Gene Allen (bs); Bill Evans (p); Milt Hinton, George Duvivier (b), Barry Galbraith (gtr); Charlie Persip, Max Roach (dr); Jon Hendricks, narrator.

[thomeselby1947]

dig bill evan's intro and throughout this amazing piece - divine! as one pagan to another, thanks for this post.

[tipsin]

@paganmaestro Always good to get the right lineup - thanks.

[tipsin]

Art Farmer, Doc Severinsen, Ernie Royal (tp) Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak, Tom Mitchell (tb) Hal McKusick (as) John Coltrane (ts) Sol Schlinger (bar) Bill Evans (p) Barry Galbraith (g) Milt Hinton (b) Charlie Persip (d) Jon Hendricks (narrator) George Russell (arr,dir).

[Trotskisty]

I did not know that.

[beckabarecka]

Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.....  pretty good company, I'd say!

Another good one.... love the Central Park pics....