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Ezz-Thetics
Label: Riverside
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ezz-Thetic; Nardis; Lydiot; Thoughts; Honesty; 'Round Midnight; Kige's Tune (take 2); Kige's Tune (take 5).
George Russell Sextet: Ezz-Thetics
by Troy Collins
A post-war masterpiece, Ezz-Thetics is pianist/arranger George Russell's definitive 1961 sextet recording from the earliest phase of his multi-decade career. On par with such iconic albums as Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961), Mal Waldron's The Quest (Riverside, 1961) and Andrew Hill's Point of Departure (Blue Note, 1964), Ezz-Thetics traffics in the same ...
George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra: 80th Birthday Concert
by Robert R. Calder
George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra 80th Birthday Concert Concept Publishing 2005 Now and then in recent years, George Russell (born 1923) has attacked what he considers backward-looking tendencies in the playing of younger jazzmen. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra was among those who fell under grave suspicion. Yet ...
George Russell
by AAJ Staff
By Ed Hazell At 83, George Russell moves a little slower than he used to and his voice, which has never lost its Midwestern twang, is softer. But his eyes have not lost their amused, intelligent twinkle and he has never lost his passion for making music.“My aim at this point ...
The 80th Birthday Concert
Label: Concept Publishing
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD1: Listen to the Silence; Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved by Nature.
CD2: The African Game: Organic Life on Earth Begins; The Paleolithic Game;
Consciousness; The Survival Game; The Human Sensing of Unity With Great Nature; African
Empires; Cartesian Man; The Mega-Minimalist age; The Future?; It
George Russell & The Living Time Orchestra: The 80th Birthday Concert
by Jerry D'Souza
George Russell celebrated his 80th birthday in 2003, touring Europe with the Living Time Orchestra, and being well and truly appreciated, as indeed he should. Apart from his Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, Russell has made several important recordings that are part of jazz history. In doing so he has translated theory into the vivid ...
Completing the Current Circuit with Fuze
by Phil DiPietro
Guitarist David “Fuze" Fiuczynski has remained somewhat of an incongruously well-kept secret despite his staggeringly complete resume, forward-thinking conceptual approach, and absolutely spine-chilling command of guitar technique. He's also been ahead of the curve on a few things; for one, the funk-metal crossover stylings that have dominated the popular music airwaves for quite some time now. ...
Ezz-Thetics
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Ezz-Thetic; 2. Nardis; 3. Lydiot; 4. Thoughts; 5. Honesty; 6. 'Round Midnight.
