RCA Victor Workshop [Import]

George Russell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jazz
• ASIN: B0000241OY
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #980,275 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ye Hypochrite, Ye Beelzebub

2. Jack's Blues

3. Livingstone I Presume

4. Ezz-Thetic

5. Night Sound

6. Round Johnny Rondo

7. Fellow Delegates

8. Witch Hunt

9. Sad Sergeant

10. Knights Of The Steamtable

11. Ballad Of Hix Blewitt

12. Concerto For Billy The Kid

13. Ballad Of Hix Blewitt (Alt)

14. Concerto For Billy The Kid (Alt)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz arranger extraordinaire attempts music, enthusiasm ensues, May 3, 2011

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Eric C. Sedensky "late-to-jazz musician" (Madison, AL, US) - See all my reviews
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The first time I listened to this work, I was disappointed. I think it was because I had been reading about George Russell and his work in the area of jazz theory and I just felt that his music was going to be so much "more". But after listening to the recording four or five times, I realized, suddenly, it IS so much "more". There's a depth and dimension to George Russell that comes, not so much from the performance, but from the music itself. The effect is invigorating. It doesn't hurt, of course, to have guys like Bill Evans, Paul Motian and Art Farmer playing your music either, and their musicality is what you would expect: crisp, harmonious, multi-faceted, and always solid in support of the concept Russell puts forth with the various songs. This is plainly obvious on the very first track "Ye Beelzebub, Ye Hypocrite" which is also one of the jazziest, but by the time you get to the fourth track, which is a harmonically and melodically altered take of "Love for Sale", twisted and re-imagined as "Ezz-thetic", the effect is just breathtaking. Although it sounds rather clichéd to say "I hear something different every time I listen to this work", with Russell, it really becomes true. I plan to buy a lot more of Russell's works, but in the meantime, I'm going to be spending a lot of time in jazz workshop. It's thrilling, enthralling, educational, fun, and stimulating to the point I may well never grow tired of it.