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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 29 > Jazz composer George Russell

Jazz composer George Russell

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 29, 2009

BOSTON — Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died.

His publicist said Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from....

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