Swiss Movement

For other uses, see Swiss Movement (disambiguation).
Swiss Movement
Live album by Les McCann and Eddie Harris
Released 1969
Recorded The Montreux Jazz Festival, June 21, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length 39:06
Label Atlantic
Producer Nesuhi Ertegün & Bob Emmer
Eddie Harris chronology
High Voltage
(1969)
Swiss Movement
(1969)
Free Speech
(1969)
Les McCann chronology
Much Les
(1968)
Swiss Movement
(1969)
Comment
(1969)

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] The album was a hit record, as was the accompanying single "Compared to What", with both selling millions of units.[1]

Reception and influence

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best jazz performance, small group.[4] It reached No. 1 on Billboard's jazz album chart, No. 2 on the R&B chart,[5] and No. 29 on the LP chart.[6][7]

A Billboard writer commented in 2006 that "what put Montreux on the recorded-live-in-concert map was the legendary Swiss Movement album".[8]

Track listing

  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

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Carr, Roy (2006) [1997], "Soul to Soul", A Century of Jazz: A Hundred Years of the Greatest Music Ever Made, London: Hamlyn, pp. 106–121, ISBN 0-681-03179-4
  2. "BBC - Music - Review of Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  3. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 96. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. "'Swiss Movement' Grammy Nominee" (March 13, 1971) Billboard. p. 4.
  5. 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.
  6. "Billboard Top LP's". (February 28, 1970) Billboard. p. 70.
  7. Whitburn, Joel (1991) "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums". Billboard Books. p. 119.
  8. Ouellette, Dan (June 3, 2006) "On the Record". Billboard. p. 36.
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