Lydian Mode
In memory of composer
George Russell, who
died at 86 on Monday —
Russell’s thoughts on the Lydian mode
strongly influenced Miles Davis,
notably in Davis’s “Kind of Blue.”
“The power of the Lydian mode,
Russell realized, is
freedom from time’s restraints.
The major scale is in a state of becoming.
The Lydian scale already is.”
— The Gravity Man, by Alice Dragoon,
quoted at LydianChromaticConcept.com
Related material:
“Field Dance,” from the date of Russell’s death.
“The Tables of Time,” from Nov. 13, 2003,
and the four entries that preceded it.
Today’s previous entry and
The Reversible Diamond Puzzle
(from St. Nicholas, November 1874)–
