{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Hal's Bells | type = Studio | artist = Hal Russell | cover = Hal's Bells.jpg |border=yes | alt = | released = 1992 | recorded = May 1992 | venue = | studio = Rainbow Studio<br>Oslo, Norway | genre = Jazz | length = 52:58 | label = ECM<br>ECM 1484 | producer = Steve Lake | chronology = Hal Russell | prev_title = Naked Colours | prev_year = 1991 | next_title = The Hal Russell Story | next_year = 1993 }}
'''''Hal's Bells''''' is a solo album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer Hal Russell recorded in May 1992 and released on ECM later that year.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1400/1484.php ECM discography] accessed May 5, 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/ecm-records/catalog-1400-series/#ecm-1484 ECM catalogue] accessed May 5, 2014</ref>
==Reception== The AllMusic review awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Although Russell died soon after recording this, there's no sense of desperation on this record; instead there is pure joy, the silly seriousness that Russell brought to all of his recordings."<ref name="Allmusic">[http://www.allmusic.com/album/hals-bells-mw0000616734 Allmusic Review] accessed May 5, 2014</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''AllMusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }}
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Hal Russell except as indicated'' # "Buddhi" - 4:13 # "Millard Mottker" - 6:48 # "Portrait of Benny" - 4:01 # "Strangest Kiss" - 5:03 # "Susanna" - 4:47 # "Carolina Moon" (John Pennington) - 6:31 # "Kenny G." - 6:21 # "I Need You Now" - 4:38 # "For Free" - 6:33 # "Moon of Manakoora" (Alfred Newman, Frank Loesser) - 4:03
==Personnel== *Hal Russell – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, trumpet, musette, vibraphone, drums, bass marimba, congas, gongs, bells, percussion, voice
==References== {{reflist}} {{Hal Russell}} {{Authority control}}
Category:ECM Records albums Category:Hal Russell albums Category:1992 albums