Jazz Articles about Andy Wasserman

About Andy Wasserman

The Jazz Life

The Scent of Swing: Jazz, Fragrance, and the Invisible Aura of Cool

by Patrick Doyle
May 15, 2026

Please visit the Scent Veteran website at https://ScentVeteran.comAtmosphere as Art: Where Jazz Meets Scent Jazz has never belonged solely to the ear. It lives in the atmosphere--in the way light hits a lacquered piano, in the hush between notes, in the glide of a well-cut suit across a crowded room. It is configuration, timing, presence. It is the ineffable quality we call “cool," a sensibility that resists definition precisely because it exists beyond language. Fragrance occupies that same elusive ...

Jazz in Long Form

Andy Wasserman, George Russell, and the Living Lineage of the Lydian Chromatic Concept

by Patrick Doyle
March 4, 2026

Few theoretical works have altered the course of modern jazz as profoundly as George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. Fewer still have had their legacy preserved with the depth of care, fidelity, and lived musicianship that Andy Wasserman has devoted to it for more than four decades. For over 40 years, Wasserman has been one of the Concept's foremost teachers and practitioners. In an era when “jazz theory" is often reduced to a toolkit of scales ...