Tag: Eddie Harris
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Eddie Harris & Les McCann, Second Movement, 1971 on Atlantic
Follow-up to the massively successful Swiss Movement (“Compared to What”), recorded at Atlantic Studios. Harris and McCann are joined by Cornell Dupree, James Rowser, Donald Dean, and Bernard Purdie. Doesn’t quite live up to Swiss Movement but it’s a great early seventies jazz LP My copy via Beverly Coin & Jewelry in Beverly MA
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Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Swiss Movement, 1969 on Atlantic
McCann & Harris recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, with Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Donald Dean (drums), and Benny Bailey (trumpet). The single “Compared To What” became a big hit. My copy (from a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA) is a mid-70s repress as it has the 75 Rockefeller Plaza address…