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Thanks for the Evans discography tips. I"ll have to check those out. I saw the trio once, in Evanston, IL , summer of 1977( the week Elvis passed).
Have you heard the tapes his son released of rehearsals and practicing, including Bill playing Bach Preludes and Fugues?

Right..that's the point..the tune itself uses them.

I lucked out last night at Half-Price books. Found a cheap( SACD) copy of Bill Evans’ Explorations, a studio session with Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motion. I’d never had the pleasure of listening to this before. One of the tunes on this recording is Nardis. While driving down the highway it occurre...

"I always thought that what you say here was true. But then when I read pp.118-121 of the new book, I saw that he uses the terms Mixolydian, Ionian, Aeolian and Phrygian in statements like "The Lydian scale's dual state Mixolydian mode". That's when I started using the term again when...

"It's really just a point of interest bearing in mind the concept's contention that the Cmaj7b5 Lydian chord scale is more in keeping with C major from a gravity point of view. Exactly why that ceases to be the case in a horizontal situation is not clear to me.â€

In regards to the two chord progressions, you could treat each chord vertically or you could write a melody using the C major scale (horizontally). I don’t think it is a prerequisite that all those chords share all the notes in the C major scale. As it turns out there just happen to be several not...

Hi John, For starters, be patient. As you can deduce from skimming the book, there is much work to be done. In addition to practicing the material on your instrument it is important to play it on piano so you can hear the various vertical entities the LCC presents. You don’t necessarily need ‘ch...

What instrument do you play? How long have you been playing? Do you play jazz?

Here are some thoughts from a friend who I hope will be joining us soon: "regarding mr. smith's post, i believe that he's got the concept of HTG not quite right. i don't believe that mr. russell's intention of introducing CMG was to imply, for example, that a chord progression resolving to a C ...

“But again it's the chords you've derived from the Mixolydian scale rather than the scale itself that have yielded this result.â€

I don’t think of a’ chord progression in the Mixolydian mode’ (BTW The term ‘Lydian’ is the only modal term that the LCC has in common with tradition theory nomenclature). This kind of thinking is similar to saying that the Major Scale has a certain chord progression. Check out page 81 of ...

I'm guessing..chords without thirds, chords made up of fifths, fourths, and other intervals, not tertian.

In the new Downbeat there is an article about the great pianist, Steve Kuhn, that mentions that he studied with George Russell.

It would be interesting to know who studied the Concept formally with George Russell. I know David Baker and Art Farmer would fit into this list. Based on a 1976 interview in Guitar Player magazine, I’m sure Barry Galbraith studied the book and certainly had access to Mr. Russell.

There are many important musicians who had direct contact with George Russell, like Miles Davis, Steve Swallow, Eric Dophy, Bill Evans, and Denny Zeitlin. This list could certainly be expanded greatly. There are others, such as Pat Metheny, who have acknowledged studying the Concept in their formati...