Ross Russell
Ross Moody Russell (March 18, 1909 – January 31, 2000) was an American jazz producer and writer. He was the founder of Dial Records. Russell wrote pulp fiction in the 1930s.
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Ross Russell
- Born
- 1909 · Los Angeles.
- Died
- 2000 · Palm Springs.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- music critic · record producer · composer · journalist · writer · reporter
- Fields
- jazz
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Ross Russell appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a music producer, writer and reporter (19 March 1909 – 31 January 2000).
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Ross Russell was born in Los Angeles, California. (19 March 1909) and died in Palm Springs, California. (31 January 2000).
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Born at Los Angeles in 1909, died in Palm Springs in 2000.
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- 1.[ Ross Russell] at Allmusic
- 2.Obituary, Jazzhouse.org
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Lawn, Richard. 1984. "From Bird to Schoenberg: The Ross Russell Collection". The Library Chronic!e of the University of Texas at Austin, New Series nos. 25–26: pp. 137–47.
- Smyth, David. 1989. "Schoenberg and Dial Records: The Composer's Correspondence with Ross Russell". Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 12, no. 1 (June): 68–90.
- Hoek, D.J. 2013. “Beyond Bebop: Dial Records and the Library of Contemporary Classics.” ARSC Journal 44, no. 1 (Spring): 70-98.
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