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The Hal Russell Story

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Released
  
1993

Artists
  
Hal Russell, NRG Ensemble

Producer
  
Steve Lake

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
73:13

Release date
  
1993

Label
  
ECM Records

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Recorded
  
July 1992 at Hardstudios, Winterthur

Similar
  
The Finnish/Swiss Tour, Hal's Bells, Elixir, NRG Ensemble, Albert's Lullaby

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The Hal Russell Story is the final album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell recorded in Switzerland in 1992 and released on the ECM label in 1993.

Contents

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Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars stating "It would be great if Hal Russell were still around serving up his wonderfully skewed jazz-rock, but this is as wonderful and fitting an epitaph as one could hope for".

The Down Beat review by Bill Shoemaker says that "Russell's circuitous route to Haldom is recounted here as a gloriously kaleidoscopic sound experience waxed just five weeks before his death."

Track listing

All compositions by Hal Russell except as indicated

  1. "Intro and Fanfare/Toy Parade/Trumpet March/Riverside Jump" - 5:22
  2. "Krupa" - 5:36
  3. "You're Blasé" - 1:51
  4. "Dark Rapture" (Benny Goodman, Manny Kurtz, Edgar Sampson) - 2:44
  5. "World Class" - 2:25
  6. "Wood Chips" - 2:31
  7. "My Little Grass Shack" (Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison, Johnny Noble) - 2:36
  8. "O & B" - 3:44
  9. "For M" - 6:17
  10. "Gloomy Sunday" (Rezső Seress) - 2:31
  11. "Hair Male" - 3:13
  12. "Bossa G" - 0:38
  13. "Mildred" - 1:07
  14. "Dope Music" - 1:44
  15. "The 2 x 2" - 3:13
  16. "The Ayler Songs" - 5:53
  17. "Rehcabnettul" - 4:05
  18. "Steve's Freedom Principle" - 5:33
  19. "Lady in the Lake" (Kent Kessler) - 3:31
  20. "Oh Well" (Peter Green) - 2:39

Personnel

  • Hal Russell - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, trumpet, xylophone, drums, percussion, gong, narrator, vocals
  • Mars Williams - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, bass saxophone, toy horns, wood flute, didgeridoo, bells, sounds, narrator
  • Brian Sandstrom - bass, trumpet, electric guitar, trumpet, toy horns, percussion
  • Kent Kessler - bass, trombone
  • Steve Hunt -- drums, vibraphone, timpani, percussion

    • Songs

    1Intro & Fanfare / Toy Parade / Trumpet March / Riverside Jump5:22
    2Krupa5:36
    3You're Blasé1:51

    References

    The Hal Russell Story Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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