Calling All Mothers

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]

Caling All Mothers
Studio album by
NRG Ensemble
Released1994
RecordedNovember 1993 at Streetville Studios, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length55:51
LabelQuinnah Records
Q05
ProducerMars Williams & Steve Lake
NRG Ensemble chronology
The Hal Russell Story
(1992)		 Caling All Mothers
(1994)		 This Is My House
(1994)

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. 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. Shoemaker, Bill. Calling All Mothers review. Down Beat September 95: page 46. Print.
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