Calling All Mothers

Caling All Mothers
Studio album by NRG Ensemble
Released 1994
Recorded November 1993 at Streetville Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length 55:51
Label Quinnah Records
Q05
Producer Mars Williams & Steve Lake
NRG Ensemble chronology
The Hal Russell Story
(1992)		 Calling All Mothers
(1993)		 This Is My House
(1994)

Calling All Mothers is an album by American jazz group the NRG Ensemble, their first after the death of bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell, which was recorded in 1993 and released on the Quinnah label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
Down Beat[4]

The AllMusic review by William York states, "the album has a nice element of diversity, yet it still coheres well... They play virtually every piece like it's an encore, but, fortunately, the material is strong enough to sustain such intensity".[2]

The Down Beat review by Bill Shoemaker says "Though the set includes three Russell pieces utilizing everything from nimble swing pastiches to full-bore sax blasts, the compositional strengths of Williams, Hunt and newcomer multi-reedist Ken Vandermark preclude the possibility of NRG ever becoming a ghost band."[4]

Track listing

  1. "Punch and Judy (For Fred Anderson)" (Ken Vandermark) - 5:26
  2. "Chasin' My Tail" (Mars Williams) - 3:28
  3. "Memory Seek" (Steve Hunt) - 8:32
  4. "Symposium/Mr. Happy" (Williams) - 5:07
  5. "You Never Buy Me Anything" (NRG Ensemble) - 6:27
  6. "American Tan (For Stanley Kubrick)" (Vandermark) - 7:16
  7. "Kiteless String" (Williams) - 3:18
  8. "Calling All Mothers" (Hal Russell) - 4:50
  9. "You're My Dream" (Hal Russell) - 3:56
  10. "Beneath the Weather (For Steve Lacy)" (Vandermark) - 3:57
  11. "sraM" (Hal Russell) - 4:20

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Discogs album entry accessed May 7, 2014
  2. 1 2 York, William. NRG Ensemble – Calling All Mothers: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1121. ISBN 0140515216.
  4. 1 2 Shoemaker, Bill. Calling All Mothers review. Down Beat September 95: page 46. Print.
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