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Ray Russell
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About Ray Russell
Ray Russell is a prolific jazz, rock, and sound library guitarist, composer, producer, and arranger. He played on seven John Barry James Bond soundtracks from 1965's Thunderball to 1983's Octopussy. His solo career began with 1968's Turn Circle; 1971's Rites and Rituals offered vanguard fusion. Russell played on dozens of '70s albums and composed, arranged, produced, and played on sound library recordings, amassing more than 10,000 credits. He worked extensively with Gil Evans until his death. In the '80s and '90s he contributed to key recordings by artists including Tina Turner, Scott Walker, and David Bowie. In 2006 he released the archival Goodbye Svengali, documenting sessions with Evans. He released Celestial Squid with Henry Kaiser in 2015, and five years later issued Fluid Architecture. Russell returned in 2026 with Dangerous Bends.
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