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Mr. Russell explained the concept in great detail in a book that came to be considered the bible of modal jazz, "The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation".

Though he largely operated behind the scenes and was never well known to the general public, Mr. Russell was a major figure in one of the most important developments in post-World War II jazz: the emergence of modal jazz, the first major harmonic change in the music after bebop.

Mr. Reed respects tonal harmony up to its breaking point in the modal jazz of the 1960's; Mr. Rivers crashes through that point to let his music speak in clusters and collisions as well as melodies.

The title eluded him, but he remembered that the song was written in the modal jazz style that Miles Davis helped popularize in the 1960's.

Though EMI had hopes for them to follow the success of tourmates Duran Duran, Hollis was less inspired by the staple early-80s influences of Bowie and/or punk that had gone before and instead preferred everything from Satie to the Seeds to the modal jazz of Miles Davis.

What he was playing was a modal jazz arrangement of "Sakura," the Japanese folk song.

Here Coltrane is reaching into modal jazz and raga tonalities, using the soprano saxophone more and more, and also solidifying the band; it's the sound of a group that knows what it's doing.

Long recognized for tapping a Middle Eastern melodic structure called the maqam, ElSaffar works with the Sumerian/Babylonian modes that evolved into the Western tonal system and the building blocks of modal jazz.

Subsequent recordings by, among many others, the saxophonists John Coltrane (a participant in the "Kind of Blue" sessions) and Eric Dolphy (who also recorded with Mr. Russell), helped spread the gospel of modal jazz.

In a classic Reich piece such as "Piano Phase" — given an electrifying, video-enhanced performance by David Cossin at Bang on a Can — you can perceive the influence of modal jazz or Motown bass lines more than you can hear them.

A year later the Davis quintet recorded Kind of Blue but, impatient to pursue his own explorations of the potential for modal jazz opened up by Davis, Coltrane formed his own quartet with Jones, Tyner and Jimmy Garrison (bass).