Composer, theoretician, pianist George Russell passed away on July 27, 2009 at approximately 9:10 pm from complications due to Alzheimer’s. He leaves his wife Alice Russell, his son Jock Millgardh and three grandchildren, Maya, Kalle and Max.There will be no funeral, but a memorial service will be planned in the future.
George Russell was a hugely influential, innovative figure in the evolution of modern jazz, the music's only major theorist, one of its most profound composers, and a trail blazer whose ideas have transformed and inspired some of the greatest musicians of our time.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 17:40 (seventeen years ago)