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George Russell, The Lydian Chromatic Concept, and Black Protest at the New England Conservatory w/ Rami Stucky

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Join Rami Stucky as he discusses composer and theorist George Russell and the impact his Lydian Chromatic Concept had on Black student activism at the New England Conservatory (NEC) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Rami expands on the work of scholars who have explored how Russell’s concept reflected the spirit of the civil rights era by showing how students were thinking of it as more than simply sonic freedom and in the ways it affirmed Black life at a predominantly White music institution. Scholars have been increasingly advocating for the incorporation of “ fugitive music theorists” such as Russell into undergraduate and graduate music curriculum and this article joins such calls. Relying on conservatory library archives as well as oral interviews with alumni, Stucky argues that Russell’s theories served as a musical and political muse for activists in the Creative Black Artists (CBA) student union during an era of curriculum reform and nationwide student protest. In doing so, Stucky hints at the impact such theories would have on students in the twenty-first century.

Plus a Q & A with the live audience.

A presentation from the Jazz Education Research and Practice Journal, a publication of the Jazz Education Network.

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ABOUT RAMI STUCKY

Rami Toubia Stucky is currently a Lecturer in the Music Department at Washington University in St. Louis where he teaches courses in hip hop, jazz history, and American popular music. He is putting the finishing touches on a book that discusses the arrival of Brazilian bossa nova to the United States in the 1960s and tries to maintain a visible profile as a drummer and arranger.

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charlotte lang

Swiss/Dutch saxophonist Charlotte Lang was born in 1996 in Basel and studied the bachelor and master program at the JAZZCAMPUS Basel under the guidance of Domenic Landolf and Daniel Blanc. She is currently studying the Master of Music in Global Jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston under the artistic direction of Danilo Pérez. In addition she is part of Terri Lyne Carrington’s Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.

From 2015 to 2018, Charlotte she was a member of the Swiss National Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Christian Muthspiel. Since 2020, she became a member of the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra (Bundesjazzorchester Deutschland), under the direction of Niels Klein and Ansgar Striepens. She also plays is the Austrian FJO (Frauen Jazz Orchester→Women Jazz Orchestra of Austria).

In 2021, Charlotte founded her own Quintet the „Charlotte Lang Group“, for what she is composing, arranging and booking. In the fall 2023, her first album will be recorded and hopefully released by a renowned label.

Charlotte plays in the “Swiss Jazz Orchestra” and the “Zurich Jazz Orchestra”, the two professional Big Bands of Switzerland.

Charlotte recently got the unique opportunity to write a monthly blog for the Swiss Jazz & Blues Magazine called JAZZTIME, to tell readers about her time at abroad and specifically her time at Berklee. Her graduate program lasts only until the summer of 2023. She hopes to stay in the United States to enlarge her network and build her musical career.