The Finnish/Swiss Tour
The Finnish/Swiss Tour is a live album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell recorded in 1991 and released on the ECM label in 1992.[1]
| The Finnish/Swiss Tour | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Live album by | ||||
| Released | October 1, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | November 1990 at the Tampere Jazz Happening and the Internationales Jazz Festival, Zürich | |||
| Genre | Free improvisation, Free Jazz | |||
| Length | 1:02:01 | |||
| Label | ECM ECM 1455 | |||
| Producer | Steve Lake | |||
| Hal Russell NRG Ensemble chronology | ||||
| ||||
Reception
The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is an extraordinary record, full of fire, reckless abandon, and thrilling playing from Russell, obviously, but also from his great band".[2] In JazzTimes Marc Masters wrote "the deliriously happy sound of The Finnish/Swiss Tour is equally worthy of reverent veneration and ecstatic celebration".[3]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Monica's Having a Baby" | Hal Russell | 5:58 |
| 2. | "Aila/35 Basic" | Hal Russell | 7:17 |
| 3. | "Temporarily" | Steve Hunt | 9:38 |
| 4. | "Raining Violets" | Brian Sandstrom | 5:03 |
| 5. | "For Mc" | Hal Russell | 3:27 |
| 6. | "Dance of the Spider People" | Mars Williams | 4:22 |
| 7. | "Ten Letters of Love" | Hal Russell | 4:51 |
| 8. | "Hal the Weenie" | Hal Russell | 7:33 |
| 9. | "Linda's Rock Vamp" | Hal Russell | 4:04 |
| 10. | "Mars Theme" | Hal Russell & Mars Williams | 9:48 |
| Total length: | 1:02:01 | ||
Personnel
- Hal Russell: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, trumpet, vibraphone, drums
- Mars Williams: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, didgeridoo
- Brian Sandstrom: bass, trumpet, guitar
- Kent Kessler: bass, bass guitar, didgeridoo
- Steve Hunt: drums, vibraphone, didgeridoo
gollark: Promises are very nice because MONAD.
gollark: Quite a lot of browser APIs are weirdly inconsistent, because they only came up with the whole "asynchronous" thing after a lot had already been done, and then a while after that the idea of promises, but they're still sticking with events a lot for some reason.
gollark: JS is what you get if you put 100 language designers in a room, remove the language designers and add a bunch of monkeys with typewriters and DVORAK keyboards, and then bring the actual language designers back but force them to stick with what the monkeys wrote and only make small changes and tack on extra features after the fact, and also the language designers don't agree with each other most of the time.
gollark: Using TS means many of the errors JS wouldn't really catch except at runtime are much easier to deal with.
gollark: I like JS from an ease of development perspective, if not really a language design one.
References
- "Hal Russell NRG Ensemble: The Finnish/Swiss Tour". ECM Records. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- "The Finnish/Swiss Tour (All Music Review)". All Music. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- "50 LPs from 35 Years of JazzTimes, Part. 3". jazztimes.com. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.