Luciano Fleming

It's good remember that the book(excellent, without doubt) of George Russell is entitled "Lydian Chromatic Concept of TONAL Organization". It's not a book about "modal" music. It's explanes the concept about chords scales, having the lydian mode as a primary basis, not the major scale.. However, it influenced the early modal jazz compositions of Miles(Kind of Blue), as all the jazz players since 1953, year of the first edition. All improvisation/ arranging books after this have used the concepts of chord scale as Russell wrote,eg., the Lydian mode played over a "I Maj7" instead the Major scale. Most of jazz players uses the concepts of Russell without a knowledgement about his book, since his Concept is presented in a "diluted form" in a thousand of improvisation books, that show the Russell conclusions about chord scales without the original thinking that originated this conclusions. For an good understanding of modalism in jazz composition, the best book written till now is the 2 books of Ron Miller "Modal Jazz Composition& Harmony". By the way, I have both Russell and Miller books.. Regards, Luciano Fleming