The Chicago River (3CDs box), by Hal Russell & Joel Futterman

The Chicago River (3CDs box)

by Hal Russell & Joel Futterman

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jeffrey maurer
What an amazing release!.... and quite a surprise.
Thank you to FSR (you are on quite a roll) and of course, Joel.
I was at the second day of this benefit. Really stunning to have both days released, unedited.
Hearing the inimitable Hal Russell announcements and his readings of Egert's poetry transport me back to a time when I saw him play regularly. What a beautiful man he was.
These duets are lightning in a bottle and brightened my weekend tremendously.

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Part of the liner notes written by prof. Marc Medwin:
Follow a river from the source’s gentle percolations, through the rushing rapids and, ultimately, to the point at which it joins the ocean’s vastness for the elemental and biographical life-cycle voyage. It transports, it connects, it replaces and it decomposes in order to redistribute itself and the unmoored objects it carries. Its powers of nourishment are as real as its cataclysmic strength. It is infused by its travels, tracing geography and culture along its disparately circuitous path, and, like the music made in these two concerts by Joel Futterman and the late Hal Russell, its journey constitutes a harmonic blend of the infinitesimally small with architectural forms and structures predicated on vast plains of historical backstory. Like the various gradations of water amidst multivalent environs, each musical moment exists but extends itself in context, connected to the last and prefiguring the next, flowing with the prescient spontaneity fostered by the trail-blazing felicities of a meeting of minds and spirits. It creates its own history while Gargantuan and inclusive reconfigurations occur, shaping the terrains over which these vast explorations in sound, each beginning with something as simple as a gesture of greeting in musical friendship, are facilitated as metaphorical boundaries are reconfigured and removed. The sounds we are now privileged to hear comprise stations, points of charged respite along a path like so many others in its stunning and transcendent uniqueness.........

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1.	1.1 The Chicago River Part One 42:18	buy track
2.	1.2 The Chicago River Part Two 34:35	buy track
3.	2.1 The Chicago River Part Three 13:23	buy track
4.	2.2 The Chicago River Part Four 47:56	buy track
5.	3.1 The Chicago River Part Five 43:40	buy track
6.	3.2 The Chicago River Encore 15:00	buy track

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On 1992 after the great flood of the Chicago River legendary icon of jazz/improvised music master Hal Russell and great Joel Futterman did a large, two days performance for the victims of the cataclysm. It was pyrotechnic, but at the same time full of fire, lyric, and abstract flavor concerts. We are honored that Joel decide to release this long-awaiting music in full length without any overdubs on our label. Over 3 hours of music on 3 CDs!

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released August 26, 2022

Hal Russell & Joel Futterman
The Chicago River

CD 1
The Chicago River Part One (42:18)
The Chicago River Part Two (34:35)

CD 2
The Chicago River Part Three (13:23)
The Chicago River Part Four (47:56)

CD3
The Chicago River Part Five (43:45)
The Chicago River Encore (15:00)

Hal Russell - Tenor saxophone, Soprano saxophone, Trumpet, Drums, Percussion
Joel Futterman Piano, Curved soprano saxophone, Indian Flute, Percussion

All compositions by Hal Russell/Joel Futterman

The Chicago River Poems by Philip Egert
Recorded April 24,25,1992 live at the Southend Music Works in Chicago
Mastered by Benjamin Tomassetti at James River Audio and Media, Newport News, Virginia.
Each track is a complete unedited first take with no overdubs,
and is in the order in which it was recorded.
Copyright 2012 jdf
www.joelfutterman.com
Liner Notes: Marc Medwin
Graphic designer: Semafor
Executive Producer: Maciej Karłowski
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