| Generation | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Hal Russell NRG Ensemble |
| Cover: | Generation (Hal Russell album).jpg |
| Released: | 1982 |
| Recorded: | September 9, 1982 Solid Sound Studios |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 53:27 |
| Label: | Nessa N 25 |
| Producer: | Chuck Nessa |
| Chronology: | Hal Russell |
| Prev Title: | Eftsoons |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Conserving NRG |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
Generation is an album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble with Charles Tyler, recorded in 1982 and originally released on the Nessa label.[1] It was reissued in 2014 with two bonus tracks previously unreleased from an early audition recording made when the band was a pre-Sandstrom quartet.[2]
The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars, stating, "As on any NRG Ensemble recording, there are no dull moments, but this one is supplanted by the joy, wisdom, and immaculate sense of the unknown that Charles Tyler brought to the date".[3]
All compositions by Hal Russell except as indicated
Bonus tracks (2014 CD reissue)
Recorded January 10, 1981