Swiss Movement
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Swiss Movement is a soul jazz[1] live album recorded on June 21, 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland by the Les McCann trio, with saxophonist Eddie Harris and trumpeter Benny Bailey.[2][3] The album was a hit record, as was the accompanying single "Compared to What", with both selling millions of units.[1]
Reception and influence
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Harvey Pekar, writing for DownBeat in a contemporary review, panned the album as "cliche-ridden".[8]
A Billboard writer commented in 2006 that "what put Montreux on the recorded-live-in-concert map was the legendary Swiss Movement album".[9] Writing in AllMusic, Richie Unterberger calls Swiss Movement "one of the most popular soul jazz albums of all time, and one of the best."[10]
The tapes of this impromptu concert were originally recorded by the festival's organisers and then passed on to Atlantic, who decided to release them after paying a fee of less than $100.[11]
McCann and Harris teamed up again for a follow-up recording, Second Movement, released in 1971.[12]
Track listing
- "Compared to What" – (Gene McDaniels): 8:41
- "Cold Duck Time" – (Eddie Harris): 6:31
- "Kathleen's Theme" – (Les McCann): 5:45
- "You Got It in Your Soulness" – (Les McCann): 7:08
- "The Generation Gap" – (Les McCann): 8:45
- "Kaftan" – (Leroy Vinnegar) – bonus track on the 1996 reissue
Personnel
- Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone
- Les McCann – piano, vocals on "Compared to What"
- Benny Bailey – trumpet
- Leroy Vinnegar – bass
- Donald Dean – drums
References
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- ↑ Eddie Harris Discography, accessed June 22, 2017
- ↑ "'Swiss Movement' Grammy Nominee" (March 13, 1971) Billboard. p. 4.
- ↑ Goldmark, Daniel (2012) In "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre. In Ake, David Andrew; Garrett, Charles Hiroshi; Goldmark, Daniel "Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries". University of California Press. p. 165.
- ↑ "Billboard Top LP's". (February 28, 1970) Billboard. p. 70.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1991) "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums". Billboard Books. p. 119.
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- ↑ Ouellette, Dan (June 3, 2006) "On the Record". Billboard. p. 36.
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External links
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