Andy Wasserman

As of November 2023, musical artist, Jazz pianist, Lydian Chromatic Concept online music educator and native New Yorker Andy Wasserman remains as active as ever, continuing to draw on an astonishingly diverse range of experience in the world of music since becoming a full-time professional musician in the 1970's. With a productive schedule that encompasses weekly solo piano live stream concerts every Sunday of fresh, original compositions, as well as a full 5-day a week roster of private online lesson students in his state-of-the-art audio/video/webcam teaching studio, to creating podcasts - plus his teaching piano and The Lydian Chromatic Concept (certified by George Russell to do so) - Andy presses onward and upward to pass forward the wealth and inspiration of his life's work in music. He has released 9 new CD's of his own signature solo piano recordings in 2020, currently for sale on his Bandcamp Pro page.

Wasserman began working with legendary composer, band leader, theoretician and NEA Jazz Master George Russell at New England Conservatory of Music in 1979. After a few years of private study, Russell enlisted Andy to serve as his substitute instructor at the Conservatory for his classes in the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization ( a/k/a “The Concept” or The LCC) when Russell was on international tours with his band, The Living Time Orchestra. Andy continues to act as an editorial assistant and seminar leader in George Russell's “Concept” and is one of only a handful of people authorized by Russell to teach 'The Concept' in it's entirety. Andy has been the only certified Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization teacher in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area since 1982. In 2010, he began offering online private one-on-one lessons in the LCCOTO via videochat to students around the world.

He worked under Mr. Russell's direction for 20 years on the 2001 fourth and final edition of “George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization; Volume One - The Art and Science of Tonal Gravity” - currently available for purchase from Russell's estate (Concept Publishing) on Amazon. Andy teaches the LCCOTO via video conferencing to students around the world who wish to further their pan-stylistic studies as improvisors, arrangers, composers, instrumentalist performers and music theory analysts.

Wasserman's intended aim is to maintain the integrity, authenticity and purity of George Russell's life's work by dedicating the transmission of its invaluable innovation explicitly as Russell and his wife Alice Norbury Russell intended it to be shared - thereby respecting and honoring his monumental legacy for future generations.