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I was forwarded this email from Jerome Harris:

Below is an announcement of an event I am organizing; please join us if you can.

Best wishes,
Jerome Harris
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“Living Time”: George Russell’s Musical Life and Legacy

A colloquium presented by the New England Conservatory of Music

Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM; free admission.

Irene Diamond Education Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway and West 60th Street
New York NY 10023

Website: http://necmusic.edu/jazz40-nyc-jazz-lincoln-center


George Russell (1923-2009)--composer, arranger, bandleader, performer, theorist, educator--occupies a unique position in the African American improvisational art music known as jazz. While Russell's innovative music and insightful ideas have been deeply influential and celebrated around the world, they remain somewhat under-recognized, particularly in the United States.

George Russell taught at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1969--the beginning of its accredited jazz studies program--until 2004. As part of its celebration of the fortieth anniversary of its jazz program, NEC presents an afternoon of conversation with a number of Russell's significant colleagues and associates. This event will provide a major critical appraisal of his multi-faceted career.


The colloquium was organized by Jerome Harris (B.M. 1977, NEC), with Ingrid Monson (B.M. 1982, NEC), Ken Schaphorst (M.M. 1984, NEC) and Cheryl Weber. It will consist of two panel discussions covering the following topics:

Panel 1: George Russell as composer, bandleader, and influential figure:

Examination of Russell's expressive, wide-ranging and forward-looking compositional work; his role in a circle of influential colleagues in New York in the late 1950s-early 1960s (Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, John Lewis, et al.); Russell’s sojourn in Scandinavia in the mid-to-late 1960, working with Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, Arild Andersen, Don Cherry, Cameron Brown, et al.

Panel 2: George Russell as music theorist and educator:

Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept: music theory as practical tool for creativity; Russell’s role in the evolution of “common practice” jazz theory; Russell at New England Conservatory: a master artist challenging and inspiring aspiring musicians.


Panelists (in alphabetical order):
David Baker
Cameron Brown
Stanton Davis
Marty Ehrlich
Gary Giddins
Duncan Heining (author of the newly published *George Russell: The Story of an American Composer*)
Joe Hunt
Ken Schaphorst
Gunther Schuller
Ben Schwendener

Moderators:
Ingrid Monson (Harvard University) and John Howland (Rutgers University)