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Generation

1982 album by Hal Russell

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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.

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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

"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

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

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Notable quotes

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
— Charles Dudley Warner, Backlog Studies, "Second Study” (1873).
“The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.”
— James Russell Lowell, Don Quixote. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech accepting renomination for the presidency, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, p. 235 (1938).
“Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.”
— Charles Lindbergh, New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, (1973)
“In 20th-century England, an individual announcing that he was the son of God and would return after death in glory would probably attract psychiatric attention; but earlier generations might have regarded such claims as unsurprising.”
— Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus, New York: Free Press Paperbacks (1996), Chapter VII "The Jesuit and Jesus", p. 144 (1997).

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