Release Date: 31 January 2011
Label: American Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436028696697
Description
George Russell's complete original album Jazz in the Space Age (Decca DL-9219). One of the composer's seminal albums, it extensively features pianist Bill Evans, along with other well known musicians such as Paul Bley, Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak, and Barry Galbraith. As a bonus, a complete live performance by the George Russell Sextet taped a few months after the culmination of Jazz in the Space Age. Between 1959 and 1960, George Russell would record the album Jazz in the Space Age, which showcased the talents of Bill Evans. On the original liner notes, Russell is quoted saying: Jazz is changing; the 60s could well be a crucial decade. One thing is certain. A variety of sounds and rhythms, many of which are alien to what audiences are used to, will fi nd their way into jazz. Unaccountably, things we hear around us every day, very human things, have either disappeared or been left out of jazz as we know it. Progress is inevitable. Today's musical palette is just not adequate. All feelings relative to life and beauty cannot be validly expressed with techniques now in vogue. What is more, jazz is an evolving art; it is not meant to be restricted. The very nature of the music and its history indicate this. Fifty years later, here s the album to prove or not his sayings.
Tracklisting
Thelonious Monk
Ella Fitzgerald
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
George Russell
Duke Ellington
Bill Evans
Amad Jamal
Howlin' Wolf
George Russell
George Russell Sextet
