Swiss Movement

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Swiss Movement
Studio album by Eddie Harris , Les McCann

Publication
(s)

1969

Label (s) Atlantic / Rhino Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

5, 6

running time

39:06

occupation

production

Nesuhi Ertegün & Bob Emmer

Studio (s)

live at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Swiss Movement is a jazz album by Eddie Harris and Les McCann , which was recorded live on June 21, 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

history

The Les McCann Trio, Eddie Harris and Benny Bailey recorded one of the most famous jazz albums of the late 1960s at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Most of the musicians played together freely improvised without prior rehearsal. Eddie Harris looked over Les McCann's shoulder as he played it to see the chords (since he used to play the piano himself).

The album's best-known song, Compared to What , an indictment against the Vietnam War, as well as You Got it in Your Soulness and Cold Duck Time, contain spirited solos by McCann, Harris and Bailey.

The song Compared to What quickly achieved cult status among Afro-American students because of the themes of unwanted war, racism and poverty.

reception

The record was mostly positively or enthusiastically received by the critics. Frank Becker wrote: “One of the most ingenious jazz long-playing records of the 1960s, if not one of the greatest of the second half of the 20th century, is the legendary live recording of the grandiose concert of Les McCann & Eddie Harris with Benny Bailey at Montreux Jazz Festival on June 21, 1969. "

Greg Boraman wrote of the album on BBC.co.uk:

"Something of a happy accident, this recording from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival has actually become one of the most talked about, exhilarating and fun live jazz performances ever captured on wax."

"It was kind of a lucky coincidence that this recording from the Montreux Jazz Festival 1969 actually became one of the most discussed, refreshing and entertaining live jazz performances ever recorded on record."

The Rough Guide to Jazz called the album "the ultimate fun-funk album that has brought the festival in Montreux almost as much as the careers of the two protagonists".

Track list

  1. Compared to What - (Gene McDaniels)
  2. Cold Duck Time - (Eddie Harris)
  3. Kathleen's Theme - (Les McCann)
  4. You Got It in Your Soulness - (Les McCann)
  5. The Generation Gap - (Les McCann)
  6. Kaftan - (Leroy Vinnegar) - Bonus track on the 1996 reissue

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CD: Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement / Online Music Magazine . www.omm.de. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  2. ^ BBC - Music - Review of Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement . www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  3. ^ Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X , p. 428.

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