''Generation'' is an album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist

Hal Russell Hal Russell (born Harold Russell Luttenbacher, August 28, 1926 – September 5, 1992) was an American free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist who performed mainly on saxophone and drums but occasionally on trumpet or vibrapho ...

's NRG Ensemble with Charles Tyler, recorded in 1982 and originally released on the

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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.''Generation''
at Nessa Records

Reception

The

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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".Allmusic Review
accessed May 6, 2014

Track listing

''All compositions by Hal Russell except as indicated'' # "Sinus Up" (Brian Sandstrom) - 3:47 # "Poodle Cut" (Steve Hunt) - 12:50 # "Sponge" - 10:42 # "Tatwas" - 3:20 # "Cascade" - 19:07 # "Generation" (Curt Bley) - 3:41 Bonus tracks (2014 CD reissue) #

"This Fence is a Loving Machine" - 4:26 #

"Uncontrollable Rages" - 13:55 :''Recorded January 10, 1981''

Personnel

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

, alto saxophone, cornet, drums * Charles Tyler - baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet (tracks 2-5) *Chuck Burdelik - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet *Brian Sandstrom -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

, bass *Curt Bley - bass,

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

*Steve Hunt - drums,

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

References

{{Authority control Hal Russell albums NRG Ensemble albums Charles Tyler (musician) albums 1982 albums Nessa Records albums