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Generation (Hal Russell album)

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Released
  
1982

Producer
  
Chuck Nessa

Release date
  
1982

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
53:27

Generation (1982)
  
Conserving NRG (1984)

Label
  
Chief Records

Recorded
  
September 9, 1982 Solid Sound Studios

Artists
  
Charles Tyler, Hal Russell, NRG Ensemble

Similar
  
Hal Russell albums, Jazz albums

Generation is an album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble with Charles Tyler recorded in 1982 and originally released on the Nessa label. It was reissued in 2014 with two bonus tracks previously unreleased from an early audition recording made when the band was a pre-Sandstrom quartet.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars stating "As on any NRG Ensemble recording, there are no dull moments, but this one is supplanted by the joy, wisdom, and immaculate sense of the unknown that Charles Tyler brought to the date".

Track listing

All compositions by Hal Russell except as indicated

  1. "Sinus Up" (Brian Sandstrom) - 3:47
  2. "Poodle Cut" (Steve Hunt) - 12:50
  3. "Sponge" - 10:42
  4. "Tatwas" - 3:20
  5. "Cascade" - 19:07
  6. "Generation" (Curt Bley) - 3:41

Bonus tracks (2014 CD reissue)

  1. "This Fence ia a Loving Machine" - 4:26
  2. "Uncontrollable Rages" - 13:55
Recorded January 10, 1981

Personnel

  • Hal Russell - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, cornet, drums
  • Charles Tyler - baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet (tracks 2-5)
  • Chuck Burdelik - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet
  • Brian Sandstrom - trumpet, electric guitar, bass
  • Curt Bley - bass, electric bass
  • Steve Hunt - drums, vibraphone

    • Songs

    1Sinus Up3:41
    2Poodle Cut12:46
    3Sponge10:37

    References

    Generation (Hal Russell album) Wikipedia
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