[1] He also recorded Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, Howard McGhee, Dodo Marmarosa, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Earl Coleman.
He shut Dial down in 1949[citation needed] and spent several years away from jazz music as owner of a golf course and other pursuits.
In 1971, he published a nonfiction book, Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, and two years later his biography Bird Lives!
[2] Russell also wrote articles for jazz magazines and taught at the University of California and Palomar College.
His large collection of records, books, periodicals, manuscripts, correspondence, interviews, and other materials was sold to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 1981.