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George Russell

American pianist and composer.

Born June 23rd, 1923 in Cincinnati. [ref]

Died July 27th, 2009 at 86 years old in Boston (Alzheimer's disease). [ref]

Occupations
composer, jazz musician, music teacher, music theorist, musicologist, pianist

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde