A good altoist friend of mine was staying with his grandmother in South Central LA. (Terrance Tony who did a tour with Art Blakely). One one occasion, he sat in on a jam session. He was taken back by this tenor player. During a break, they complimented each other. My friend said "you sound just like Eddie Harris!" This tenor player laughed and replied "Well I hope so. . . I'm Eddie Harris!" For the following sets, Eddie played mostly piano since my friend was playing. Eddie was described as cool and down to Earth.
Great story!!! I lived in the same brownstone as Blakey's grandson (manager for the Messengers)..He was surprised that I even knew about his grandfather. I told him I was weaned on music.
I was a sophomore at Northwestern University in Chicago (actually Evanston) when I first heard this tune, and I must say that it changed my life! The Beatles and Mick Jagger had hit the scene, but they could not touch Eddie Harris & Les McCann. They defined my era of existence, and I still claim it today.
I can't believe I'm actually in my 70's. What happened with all these years? I can still remember the first time I listened to this song was when I was lying in bed with a joint between my fingers ....
When my Mom passed on...my Father called me at 5:00 AM to tell me the sad news. I didn't cry. No. I hung up the phone and I reached down into my CD rack and out came Les McCann and "the ELECTRIFYING" Eddie Harris's "Swiss Movement". Yeah!!! And in tribute to Shirley Jean Robinson (*Feb 7, 1938 - May 18, 2002*) I played "Cold Duck Time"...her favorite. I cranked that baby too. Loud. "To You Mom". Happy Mother's Day!!! You will forever be loved and missed!!!
Your dad is a great musician if he played just like Les McCann. "baddy baddy assed" is what we called it back in the day, in SanJo. We're playing this track live in May, in Germany. We can only hope to be somewhat as baddy assed with it as these fellas were in switzerland in 1969. I've been listening to and learning from Les for about 40 years now and I never get tired of it, and I hope people hear his influence in my playing. Timeless, Always Fresh. Absolutely "THE" shit. For me anyway. . This and the Lou Rawls tracks, with the same trio. Leroy Vinegar on bass, and Mr. Jefferson on drums. Where the gospel meets the blues, Latin and jazz on the way to the FONK, Where it's at.
@@KSmall109CABBen is quoted in the liner notes of the CD saying he initially thought the crowd was really digging his solo and the applause was for him. He also said that Ms. Fitzgerald came up to them after the set and apologized for entering during their performance. Man, I sure wish I could have been there, but I was only 4!😂
I was lucky enough to have a fearless friend who would call great musicians to come over and jam. One day he calls and tells me to grab my tenor and come to his house prepared to spend the day. I walk in and the is my friend Joe D'Elia with Eddie Harris. Seeing my tenor case he sat at the piano with Joe at the drums and we spent the better part of the afternoon playing and listening to Eddie talk about jazz and funk and his life in the business. Then we drove to NYC to catch Eric Alexander at Sweet Basil and the place went crazy when we walked in. Everyone knew they were in the presence of genius and we had a ball. Eddie was one the kindest people I ever met and I was very lucky to have shared that day and night with him and my friend Joe. Both Eddie and Joe are gone now but I will cherish the memory of that day and night until I check out.
amen & delivered it thru such a very wide variety of flavors, moods, musical settings a deliciously inventive composer of jazz plans for players to play within on the album you hear Les intro the tune with "this is the first time we've ever heard it" watch Bennie Bailey's smile grow as Eddie takes first solo, & Eddie's smile as he hears & watches Bennie Bailey take the framework and cut loose that beautiful solo within it
I absolutely LOVE the syncopation in the head, I mean holy shit, it blows me away every time!! Eddie Harris was a legendary performer, and his stage presence is just so chill & effortless... wish I could see him perform
After football practice in college, most of the "brothers" on my team would beg me to let them come to my little house to listen to JAZZ. I have a fabulous Jazz collection. I never turned them down. This song was always the first song I'd play on my record player to set the mood. . FYI...during the trumpet solo, Ella Fitzgerald enters to sit down....WOW. This song is "Cold Duck Time". They performed this with only one rehearsal. I was honored to see Eddie Harris perform at "Concerts by the Sea" in Redondo Beach, CA. If you are a true Jazz fan, I know you will appreciate listening to the entire cut. ALL SAX PLAYERS....ENJOY.
i also saw him there, and he came into Carmelo's jazz club were i tended bar a couple days later. all the studio musicians came there to hear their frjends play
@@tomhamilton4825 I was talking about the bass player opening the song with swing eights and then adapting to straight eights when the rest of the band starts playing.
Wow. So many memories growing in Detroit. This song influenced me to pick up the saxophone. The great Eddie Harris! You can sing his solo! I had his sax book.
i,'ve seen Brotha Eddie Harris, in concert in HARLEM, Montreal JAZZ festival, his musical influences are endless, always a MARVELOUS Message in all his SHOWS.....timeless MUSIC...PRICELESS
Reminds me of my high school band days (class of 1972). A few of us got together & learned to play this vintage music from the REAL jazz greats. Les McCann FOREVER!!!!!!
Yes Sir Buddy There Was Magic in the Air In 69 a Hipness a Cool that was Born and it grabbed all Musicians Notibly Miles Birth of the Cool and These Cats What a Glorious Time to be alive
I love watching Donald Dean watching Eddie Harris during his solo. Makes me smile everytime I see his joy and then Donald plays a great solo himself from the inspiration. Beautiful moments in jazz.
I picked up this album on vinyl at a flea market for $1, It was in kind of rough shape, but it could still bring out the feel of that day. I later got the 30th Anniversary CD, I still love the sound it has on vinyl.
This is great! I have the album and listened to it many times but never saw the video. I love at 1:10 how Eddie Harris suspends time in the break during his solo. And Benny Bailey's solo is out of this world! 👍❤️
Start at 2:00, the sax player hits those funky notes...they arrive at Eddie...they stagger him back for a sec...he closes his eyes...then that smile...then the look over at another musician as if to say "listen to this cat go..."...then the beamy smile again. No exaggerated movements or fist pumps, just quiet appreciation of the other guy's art. What consummate professionals all
I had a cassette of this-wore it out driving in my 1985 Mitsubishi in 1985-Bought the CD in the late 1990's-what a great performance -bENNY bAILEY -WHO KNEW -NO REHEARSAL IS THE LEGEND.
I’ve listen to the record of this for almost 50 years... And I always thought the ending was live. I can’t believe they edited out one of the last notes of the ending for the record!
And all these years I thought the applause for Benny's solo was just that, rather than Ella coming in and sitting down in the front seat..There you have it.
Ella came in just at the right moment to provoke an applause to one of the most unbelievable trumpet solos in the history of jazz :) She knew what she was doing...
also, if you watch the full video of the performance, after this set, she later apologizes to Benny for interrupting his solo. and even the piano player acknowledges how you can't not applaud for Ella.
WOW I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS FOR DECADES. Never seen it. Also i only discovered the music of Ben Bailey a few years ago.. never knew he was on this track.
Got a Tenor a few weeks ago and I must get this song down. Eddie Harris and Cannon Ball Adderly made me want to play the Saxophone. I think this live recording is the best of any recording ever!!!
Benny Bailey had his eyes closed during his solo so he didn't notice that Ella had just walked in. He said later that he thought all the cheering was for what he was doing (and he was a bit embarrassed)! It was worthy of some cheers, though, because it's a really smoking solo, with those cool growls in the break and double-time just as Ella appears.
As many here are sharing they did, I did not see Eddie Harris live. My last band though went for 10 years, primarily Swing Dance "Big Band" ( we were 7 piece) but also covered much straight ahead Jazz, R&B, etc. and for club dates we would always open with Miles Davis "Freddie the Freeloader" to ease into the night. We would save Cold Duck Time to a bit later when it was time to open up and blow longer solos over this great groove. Piano, Guitar, Sax (1 or 2) and me on harmonica......this is a great song for harp. I have played with many horn players who "were there" to play with Duke E., Count Basie, Joe Liggins, Ray Charles, etc. ....veteran players who like these gentlemen here, make it look easy!
I have to agree with you fully. My school mates came from a school tour that I didnt go to with an Eddie Harri's cassette they picked up there and gave it to me. I still have it since 1983
I remember when I bought this album in '74. I didn't have much money at that time, I was still young, but I made sure to always save a little bit of my paycheck for Eddy Harris's records, among others. I went home and listened it so many time, the record got scratched. Happily for me, my girlfriend at the time had a one of those too, so it was the perfect excuse to go to her house. I still cherish these moments in my memory, now more than forty years later. That girlfriend became my wife, and we used many Edie Harris songs at our wedding! Every time I listen to a Eddie Haris song, I miss her. At least, I miss her when we were young. I don't really miss the time she cheated on my with my coworker, before eloping with him at the other side of the country. Fuck you Walpurgina.
This is a video segment, from the fabulous 1969 concert, from which the famous McCann/Harris 'SWISS MOVEMENT' album was made. This was the first time that the band had played the tune, for an audience. They had just learned it, that day.
Gotcha beat by 3 years and I've still got the original slightly dog-eared album that I bought way back then...had to pick up the CD when they first came out :))
Lord, to see this and have only heard the album prior is amazing. This material shaped my musical heart, and that heart today has just started bass and tenor -- all at the age of fifty-something.
Glad times have changed and people don;t have to feel they have to be so stiff when listening to such funky grooves. How can they sit there like unmoved statues? Barely a head nod between them.
Until today, I never knew and always wished, that I could find video recordings of this session. Looks like "Compared to What" and "Cold Duck Time" are the only ones.
What’s so interesting about this clip is that halfway through Benny Bailey’s improv a certain world renowned jazz vocalist strolls in to thunderous applause……..I always wondered what Benny thought was going on…….cause he was killing…
I had the "Swiss Movement" album from when it first came out and could never understand why everyone was going crazy in the middle of the trumpet solo. Now I know. God herself just walked in.
All I was thinking was they are playing this note for note from my favorite album. Didn't know there was a video of it too. I thought jazz festivals would be outside
Love all the comments. Amazing album. And to think it was a constant player on "underground" FM rock at the time. Don't want to dis any rock bands, but these guys would kick their collective asses.
the casual, absolutely careless excellence is sublime...it just radiates off of them. and if i'm not mistaken this was a pick up band. love how you can kinda hear up les singing along with his playing as eddie leans on the piano
RIP Les 12/29/2023. 88. Thank you for all the living memories.
A good altoist friend of mine was staying with his grandmother in South Central LA. (Terrance Tony who did a tour with Art Blakely). One one occasion, he sat in on a jam session. He was taken back by this tenor player. During a break, they complimented each other. My friend said "you sound just like Eddie Harris!" This tenor player laughed and replied "Well I hope so. . . I'm Eddie Harris!" For the following sets, Eddie played mostly piano since my friend was playing. Eddie was described as cool and down to Earth.
Great story!!! I lived in the same brownstone as Blakey's grandson (manager for the Messengers)..He was surprised that I even knew about his grandfather. I told him I was weaned on music.
I was a sophomore at Northwestern University in Chicago (actually Evanston) when I first heard this tune, and I must say that it changed my life! The Beatles and Mick Jagger had hit the scene, but they could not touch Eddie Harris & Les McCann. They defined my era of existence, and I still claim it today.
I can't believe I'm actually in my 70's. What happened with all these years? I can still remember the first time I listened to this song was when I was lying in bed with a joint between my fingers ....
Join the club, Champ. I'm in my 70s, listening to this, smoking a joint 👌
Yeah, baby. I'm 73 and still listening with a joint between my fingers. It's the music of the spheres. Ain't life grand, Dave?
🤣
When my Mom passed on...my Father called me at 5:00 AM to tell me the sad news. I didn't cry. No. I hung up the phone and I reached down into my CD rack and out came Les McCann and "the ELECTRIFYING" Eddie Harris's "Swiss Movement". Yeah!!! And in tribute to Shirley Jean Robinson (*Feb 7, 1938 - May 18, 2002*) I played "Cold Duck Time"...her favorite. I cranked that baby too. Loud. "To You Mom". Happy Mother's Day!!! You will forever be loved and missed!!!
yes
nice memories ...
wonderful.
You are a damn good son.Really!
What a memory! Your mama would have been proud of you honoring her memory!
It don't get no damn COOLER than this. Can't tell you how many times I've listened to this since 1970! A LOT!!
You're absolutely right! Insane
My dad played piano just like les mccann and those funky horns drums and funky bass wow baddest tracks of all times!!!!
Your dad is a great musician if he played just like Les McCann. "baddy baddy assed" is what we called it back in the day, in SanJo. We're playing this track live in May, in Germany. We can only hope to be somewhat as baddy assed with it as these fellas were in switzerland in 1969.
I've been listening to and learning from Les for about 40 years now and I never get tired of it, and I hope people hear his influence in my playing.
Timeless, Always Fresh. Absolutely "THE" shit. For me anyway. . This and the Lou Rawls tracks, with the same trio.
Leroy Vinegar on bass, and Mr. Jefferson on drums.
Where the gospel meets the blues, Latin and jazz on the way to the FONK, Where it's at.
You can tell by looks on Eddie Harris' and Les McCann's faces that they just heard one of the greatest trumpet solos ever. Ben Bailey just killed it.
Nothing like having Ella Fitzgerald walk in on you while you're at the peak of your solo!
One of my favorite trumpet solos of all time!
Thank you for adding his name. I wanted to know 😊
outrageous chops on him - few can do that.
@@KSmall109CABBen is quoted in the liner notes of the CD saying he initially thought the crowd was really digging his solo and the applause was for him. He also said that Ms. Fitzgerald came up to them after the set and apologized for entering during their performance. Man, I sure wish I could have been there, but I was only 4!😂
It never gets old
Been listening to this since 1969, but seeing the performances only now. Lord. Makes me want to jump on the next thing smokin' to Switzerland.
Same here since I was in Jr. High school in 1970.
I'm with you. sheeminy.
awesome, awesome.
More proof that great music is timeless.
Yeah. No electronic nonsense to date it.
@@RexLancaster8 it
Leroy Vinegar is walking down that double bass...the spacing is wicked!
One of the HARDEST GROOVIN cats ever.
I just love Eddie Harris been a fan since 1969.i love saxophone players
I was lucky enough to have a fearless friend who would call great musicians to come over and jam. One day he calls and tells me to grab my tenor and come to his house prepared to spend the day. I walk in and the is my friend Joe D'Elia with Eddie Harris. Seeing my tenor case he sat at the piano with Joe at the drums and we spent the better part of the afternoon playing and listening to Eddie talk about jazz and funk and his life in the business. Then we drove to NYC to catch Eric Alexander at Sweet Basil and the place went crazy when we walked in. Everyone knew they were in the presence of genius and we had a ball. Eddie was one the kindest people I ever met and I was very lucky to have shared that day and night with him and my friend Joe. Both Eddie and Joe are gone now but I will cherish the memory of that day and night until I check out.
Beautiful man!!
Beautiful man! I played with Ben Tucker who wrote " Comin'Home Baby ". Was Bros with Yusef Lateef also. Peace.
Eddie Harris had so much soul in his playing
you are correct!
Right On !!
@@EddieHarrisJazz love me some Eddie!!
amen
& delivered it thru such a very wide variety of flavors, moods, musical settings
a deliciously inventive composer of jazz plans for players to play within
on the album you hear Les intro the tune with "this is the first time we've ever heard it"
watch Bennie Bailey's smile grow as Eddie takes first solo, & Eddie's smile as he hears
& watches Bennie Bailey take the framework and cut loose that beautiful solo within it
I saw him play in Seattle several times. He even gave me his music theory book and signed it for me. Eddie is truly missed!!!
I can summarize their performance in only one word" Awsome"👌
one of the best things i have heard!
I absolutely LOVE the syncopation in the head, I mean holy shit, it blows me away every time!! Eddie Harris was a legendary performer, and his stage presence is just so chill & effortless... wish I could see him perform
They were the greatest combo! 🤜🏾🤛🏾
After football practice in college, most of the "brothers" on my team would beg me to let them come to my little house to listen to JAZZ. I have a fabulous Jazz collection. I never turned them down. This song was always the first song I'd play on my record player to set the mood. . FYI...during the trumpet solo, Ella Fitzgerald enters to sit down....WOW. This song is "Cold Duck Time". They performed this with only one rehearsal. I was honored to see Eddie Harris perform at "Concerts by the Sea" in Redondo Beach, CA. If you are a true Jazz fan, I know you will appreciate listening to the entire cut. ALL SAX PLAYERS....ENJOY.
Right On Brother !!
You are a good Brother,,,,
Monrovia Liberia?????
International "Cold Duck"
Anybody know 🤔 trumpet and keyboard,bass
i also saw him there, and he came into Carmelo's jazz club were i tended bar a couple days later. all the studio musicians came there to hear their frjends play
I just love how the Bass is swinging before the rest joins in :'D
yes, this was truly new material!
Yeah !!! IN the groove!! Leroy Vinegar!!
As a bassist I do too! The bass line is repeated over and over the syncopation has to be on point!
@@tomhamilton4825 I was talking about the bass player opening the song with swing eights and then adapting to straight eights when the rest of the band starts playing.
The groove and all the off time is what makes jazz beautiful…this is LIVE performance and the warts make it even better…
Wow. So many memories growing in Detroit. This song influenced me to pick up the saxophone. The great Eddie Harris! You can sing his solo! I had his sax book.
Right On Brother !!
Thank God for Bluetooth! Never heard this before, so it's new to me. Good music is TIMELESS! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
You might want to check out COMPARED TO WHAT from that concert, too.
And when you're in Goldap, I definitely recommend testing zeppelins out.
Jeez...Fantastic memories...and Ella just strolls in there halfway through..my God what a time..
❤it Still...I was Six years old....I am a vibrant 59 ❤ it still ..Solid Real Musique❤🎉🎉
This was a standout on the radio when first released. Bought the album immediately. Wow and Ella Fitzgerald in the audience. Dang.
Now, this is how you celebrate Black History Month! By listening to some of the BEST Old School Jazz songs in history! 🎸🎹🎷
Music as fresh and exciting as ever!
Really cool to see the footage of this performance. Classic!
I was shocked to see Ella Fitzgerald walk in and be seated at about 3:09. This is a treasure!
i,'ve seen Brotha Eddie Harris, in concert in HARLEM, Montreal JAZZ festival, his musical influences are endless, always a MARVELOUS Message in all his SHOWS.....timeless MUSIC...PRICELESS
Right On Brother !!
My Father favorite song of all time. RIP the REAL. #Respect #Legendsneverdie
Always has been my signature song. its always cold duck time.
Reminds me of my high school band days (class of 1972). A few of us got together & learned to play this vintage music from the REAL jazz greats. Les McCann FOREVER!!!!!!
Yes Sir Buddy There Was Magic in the Air In 69 a Hipness a Cool that was Born and it grabbed all Musicians Notibly Miles Birth of the Cool and These Cats What a Glorious Time to be alive
Right On Brother !!
Miles Davis's BIRTH OF THE COOL was recorded in three sessions during 1949 and 1950!!
Anyway...we love this music!!!
I love watching Donald Dean watching Eddie Harris during his solo. Makes me smile everytime I see his joy and then Donald plays a great solo himself from the inspiration. Beautiful moments in jazz.
DA GRANDMASTA (all of them) OF ALL DA GRANDMASTA OF THE UNIVERSE GROOVE!!!!
Good music transcends time. Long live Les McCann.
Les McCann all itchy on the piano is just healing me....
This has ALWAYS been MY Jam!!!
I picked up this album on vinyl at a flea market for $1, It was in kind of rough shape, but it could still bring out the feel of that day. I later got the 30th Anniversary CD, I still love the sound it has on vinyl.
Right On Sister !!
I pay full price...all worth.💃🏾👠💄📿❤
Ella, is that you I see? I believe it is !!!! Good to see you again !!!!
This is truly a treasured experience! Love this since I was a kid riding backseat in my dad’s car! Thanks for posting!
Dad blessed me with the music that drove me, thank you dad!!! Stan.
This is great! I have the album and listened to it many times but never saw the video. I love at 1:10 how Eddie Harris suspends time in the break during his solo. And Benny Bailey's solo is out of this world! 👍❤️
Words are inadequate to define this is a must-see to understand
Stunning!
OMG....I love Eddie's smile!!!
Start at 2:00, the sax player hits those funky notes...they arrive at Eddie...they stagger him back for a sec...he closes his eyes...then that smile...then the look over at another musician as if to say "listen to this cat go..."...then the beamy smile again. No exaggerated movements or fist pumps, just quiet appreciation of the other guy's art. What consummate professionals all
every young guitar player needs this in there vocabulary that was the ultimate shred soul feeling and technical prowesssss
guitarars dons
When you come to Montreux you come to jam.
Right On Sister !!
His work with the Varitone attachment he used later on was always tastefully done.
I had a cassette of this-wore it out driving in my 1985 Mitsubishi in 1985-Bought the CD in the late 1990's-what a great performance -bENNY bAILEY -WHO KNEW -NO REHEARSAL IS THE LEGEND.
I’ve listen to the record of this for almost 50 years... And I always thought the ending was live. I can’t believe they edited out one of the last notes of the ending for the record!
It's so great and all of a sudden the wheels fall off and it ends.
And all these years I thought the applause for Benny's solo was just that, rather than Ella coming in and sitting down in the front seat..There you have it.
Ella came in just at the right moment to provoke an applause to one of the most unbelievable trumpet solos in the history of jazz :) She knew what she was doing...
Absolutely correct..
I was applauding for Benny's solo ;)
also, if you watch the full video of the performance, after this set, she later apologizes to Benny for interrupting his solo. and even the piano player acknowledges how you can't not applaud for Ella.
Me too man .... love this song ...!
R.I.P. Les McCann
Wonderful under any circumstances just great I'm the moment feeling man that is music.
This.is time-less 🎶 🎶 ohh the good old days.aug2020.
Listening 2021🎼🎵🎶🎷
💃🏾👠💄📿❤
WOW I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS FOR DECADES. Never seen it. Also i only discovered the music of Ben Bailey a few years ago.. never knew he was on this track.
My spirit flying above my mountain kingdom Lesotho
Got a Tenor a few weeks ago and I must get this song down. Eddie Harris and Cannon Ball Adderly made me want to play the Saxophone. I think this live recording is the best of any recording ever!!!
Heard today on Real Jazz (Sirus) . . . . absolutely dig the performance at Montreux . . . .
I grew listening to this cut. This was o NBC e of my high school graduation gift,(this LP). Love it♥️
Benny Bailey had his eyes closed during his solo so he didn't notice that Ella had just walked in. He said later that he thought all the cheering was for what he was doing (and he was a bit embarrassed)! It was worthy of some cheers, though, because it's a really smoking solo, with those cool growls in the break and double-time just as Ella appears.
As many here are sharing they did, I did not see Eddie Harris live. My last band though went for 10 years, primarily Swing Dance "Big Band" ( we were 7 piece) but also covered much straight ahead Jazz, R&B, etc. and for club dates we would always open with Miles Davis "Freddie the Freeloader" to ease into the night. We would save Cold Duck Time to a bit later when it was time to open up and blow longer solos over this great groove. Piano, Guitar, Sax (1 or 2) and me on harmonica......this is a great song for harp. I have played with many horn players who "were there" to play with Duke E., Count Basie, Joe Liggins, Ray Charles, etc. ....veteran players who like these gentlemen here, make it look easy!
"Swiss Movement" was like an invasion, an infusion of some of the best music we didn't know we were so hungry for.... "Class of 69"
Eddie Harris is the most underrated jazz musician of all time.
Agreed 😉
Most underrated musician PERIOD!!
I have to agree with you fully. My school mates came from a school tour that I didnt go to with an Eddie Harri's cassette they picked up there and gave it to me. I still have it since 1983
Not by me...the most recognisable sax sound in all jazz
There’s that word again…
I remember when I bought this album in '74. I didn't have much money at that time, I was still young, but I made sure to always save a little bit of my paycheck for Eddy Harris's records, among others. I went home and listened it so many time, the record got scratched. Happily for me, my girlfriend at the time had a one of those too, so it was the perfect excuse to go to her house. I still cherish these moments in my memory, now more than forty years later. That girlfriend became my wife, and we used many Edie Harris songs at our wedding! Every time I listen to a Eddie Haris song, I miss her. At least, I miss her when we were young. I don't really miss the time she cheated on my with my coworker, before eloping with him at the other side of the country. Fuck you Walpurgina.
What a ride
Wlpurgina is her actual name? Lol
And ELLA sits in !!! HELL YEAH !
This is a video segment, from the fabulous 1969 concert, from which the famous McCann/Harris 'SWISS MOVEMENT' album was made. This was the first time that the band had played the tune, for an audience. They had just learned it, that day.
i HEARD Swiss Movement when I was 20 and I turned right there into a LOVER OF JAZZ now 45 yrs. later still love this LP
Right On Brother !!
Gotcha beat by 3 years and I've still got the original slightly dog-eared album that I bought way back then...had to pick up the CD when they first came out :))
One on the greatest songs in Jazz History....and of course what I have always called the famous "Pregnant pause" ....around 4:00...It is outstanding
It's almost as if they're suspending time... 🙂
Lord, to see this and have only heard the album prior is amazing. This material shaped my musical heart, and that heart today has just started bass and tenor -- all at the age of fifty-something.
Ditto brother !
Amen, at 70!
SeerTrulth Me too and add ten to your number.
SeerTrulth I picked up the bass at 55; I'm about to turn 62. It's never too late! Keep it low ...
So how's that coming along for you?
Les Mccann having a perfect time.Cooking.
Right On Sister !!
Wow! What a song and what a video! Documenting a great moment in jazz history. Brilliant!
Glad times have changed and people don;t have to feel they have to be so stiff when listening to such funky grooves. How can they sit there like unmoved statues? Barely a head nod between them.
That's because...they were listening
Was just listening to this on spotify when I thought to check out Les McCann on UA-cam - and here it is, live and kicking!
I forgot about this song.
How could you ?!
The Theme from Exodus brought me to Eddie Harris.
One of my all time favorites.
I could not stay in my seat.
Great Music, great E. Harris, and B. Bailey. Thanks Rio de Janeiro Brasil.
Until today, I never knew and always wished, that I could find video recordings of this session. Looks like "Compared to What" and "Cold Duck Time" are the only ones.
My older has & had this on his Reel to Reel deck player. His (Navy days)
magnificent...
Eddy Harris makes sense !!!!!!!!!!!
What’s so interesting about this clip is that halfway through Benny Bailey’s improv a certain world renowned jazz vocalist strolls in to thunderous applause……..I always wondered what Benny thought was going on…….cause he was killing…
The inimitable Ella!
and he never missed a beat
I thought it was kind of rude of Ella's entourage to enter during Benny's solo. They could have waited till the tune was over.
Dam, that's some hip shit!!!
This never gets old! Thanks for posting.)
I had the "Swiss Movement" album from when it first came out and could never understand why everyone was going crazy in the middle of the trumpet solo. Now I know. God herself just walked in.
They were applauding because Ella Fitzgerald joined the crowd.
HELL YEAH.
I never appreciated the base untill sering them perform...ahhhh
The internet!!!
All I was thinking was they are playing this note for note from my favorite album. Didn't know there was a video of it too. I thought jazz festivals would be outside
Right On Brother !!
Love all the comments. Amazing album. And to think it was a constant player on "underground" FM rock at the time. Don't want to dis any rock bands, but these guys would kick their collective asses.
Listening to that song now.
One of my favorite all-time
the casual, absolutely careless excellence is sublime...it just radiates off of them. and if i'm not mistaken this was a pick up band. love how you can kinda hear up les singing along with his playing as eddie leans on the piano
Duck! Duck! Go! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
They are awesome!
that's real cool jazz music right thgere
Cold Duck Time......HIstoric Video