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Released
  
1969

Silver Cycles (1968)
  
High Voltage (1969)

Release date
  
1969

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
38:29

Artist
  
Eddie Harris

Label
  
Collectables Records

Producers
  
Arif Mardin, Joel Dorn

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Recorded
  
September 4 and December 3, 1968 New York City

Similar
  
Eddie Harris albums, Jazz albums

Eddie harris silver cycles 1969


Silver Cycles is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1968 and released on the Atlantic label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review states "The music is by turns swinging, touching, feverish, detached, nightmarish, and peaceful, bursting with new ideas generated from Harris' plunge into electronics. This album has been unjustly overlooked, probably because Harris was selling a lot of records and getting airplay at the time (a cardinal sin for purists), or perhaps for its free, anything-goes '60s spirit".

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated

  1. "Free at Last" - 3:15
  2. "1974 Blues" - 4:22
  3. "Smoke Signals" - 2:55
  4. "Coltrane's View" (Jodie Christian) - 4:08
  5. "I'm Gonna Leave You by Yourself" - 3:00
  6. "Silver Cycles" (Harris, Melvin Jackson) - 5:50
  7. "Little Bit" - 5:29
  8. "Electric Ballad" - 2:54
  9. "Infrapolations" - 6:36
  • Recorded in New York City on September 4 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 9), and December 3 (tracks 3, 5 & 7), 1968

    • Personnel

  • Eddie Harris - tenor saxophone, varitone
  • Jodie Christian (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 9), Joe Zawinul (track 7) - piano
  • Richard Davis (tracks 3, 5 & 7), Melvin Jackson (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 9) - bass
  • Monk Montgomery - electric bass (track 7)
  • Bruno Carr (tracks 1, 2 & 6-8), Billy Hart (tracks 3, 5 & 7), Richard Smith (tracks 4 & 9) - drums
  • Bernie Glow (track 1), Melvin Lastie (track 2), Joe Newman (tracks 1 & 2), Ernie Royal (tracks 1 & 7), Snooky Young (tracks 2 & 7) - trumpet
  • Benny Powell - trombone (tracks 1 & 2)
  • Phil Bodner, (track 7), Seldon Powell (tracks 1, 2 & 7) - tenor saxophone
  • Haywood Henry - baritone saxophone (tracks 2 & 7)
  • Marcelino Valdez - percussion (tracks 6 & 8)
  • Eileen Gilbert, Melba Moore, Valerie Simpson, Maeretha Stewart - vocals (tracks 3 & 5)
  • Unidentified string section conducted by Gene Orloff (tracks 3 & 5)

    • Songs

    1Free at Last3:20
    21974 Blues4:28
    3Smoke Signals3:02

    References

    Silver Cycles Wikipedia
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