| Naked Colours | ||||
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| Live album by Hal Russell-Joel Futterman Quartet | ||||
| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | December 17, 1991 at the Franz Club in Berlin | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 65:09 | |||
| Label | Silkheart SHCD135 | |||
| Producer | Philip R. Egert | |||
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Naked Colours is a live album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell and pianist Joel Futterman recorded in 1991 and released on the Silkheart label in 1994. [1]
The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is a mighty date with plenty for free jazz fans to celebrate". [2]
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
All compositions by Joel Futterman
Hal Russell was an American free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist who performed mainly on saxophone and drums but occasionally on trumpet or vibraphone. Russel's fiery music was marked by significant humor, not unlike much of Dutch drummer Han Bennink's output. His music was so accessible that People magazine hailed The Finnish Swiss Tour on ECM as one of its top 5 albums of the year. Russell set the table for the free improv and free jazz scene which exploded later in the 1990s in Chicago.
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