Articles by Patrick Doyle
Jazz in Long Form
Andy Wasserman, George Russell, and the Living Lineage of the Lydian Chromatic Concept
by Patrick Doyle
Few theoretical works have altered the course of modern jazz as profoundly as George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. Fewer still have had their legacy preserved with the depth of care, fidelity, and lived musicianship that Andy Wasserman has devoted to it for more than four decades. For over 40 years, Wasserman has been one of the Concept's foremost teachers and practitioners. In an era when “jazz theory" is often reduced to a toolkit of scales ...
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