Ezz-thetic

George Russell · 1961 · Opening track of Ezz-thetics (recorded May 1961, Riverside) with Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Dave Baker, Steve Swallow and Joe Hunt.

Context

Opening track of the album Ezz-thetics by the George Russell Sextet, recorded on May 8, 1961 in New York for Riverside (RLP 375). The record applies the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, a theory published by Russell in 1953, and places the soloists in ambiguous, shifting tonal frameworks. It marks Steve Swallow's recording debut and contains a version of 'Round Midnight by Eric Dolphy regarded as a classic.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Modal, Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Modal: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop, Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• All About Rosie (1957)

Sources

• audaud.com
• squidco.com

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