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George Russell

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 48: The Experimentalists – George Russell, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy (1956 – 1960)

    Feb 2nd, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bill Evans, Booker Little, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Eric Dolphy, George Russell, Ornette Coleman

    Cecil Taylor In the wake of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins came a wave of players eager to experiment further within the broadening definition of jazz. Among the most durable of this next generation are composer George Russell, pianist Cecil Taylor, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman and multi-reed player Eric Dolphy. The late 1950s […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 26: That Dizzy Cat – Dizzy Gillespie (1945 – 1948)

    Aug 25th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: bebop, Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, George Russell, jazz at 100, Thelonious Monk

    Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. The wartime economy with its shortages and the musician’s strike of the early 1940s led Gillespie to focus on small combos for his own projects, […]

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