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Silver Cycles

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Silver Cycles
Studio album by
Released1969
RecordedSeptember 4 and December 3, 1968
New York City
GenreJazz
Length38:29
LabelAtlantic
SD 1517
ProducerArif Mardin and Joel Dorn
Eddie Harris chronology
Pourquoi L'Amérique
(1968)
Silver Cycles
(1969)
High Voltage
(1969)

Silver Cycles is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1968 and released on the Atlantic label.[1][2] The album features heavy Latin jazz and postbop themes, accompanied by electronic processing.[3]

Reception

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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".[4]

Professional ratings
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Allmusic[4]

Track listing

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Atlantic Records discography accessed May 10, 2012
  2. ^ Eddie Harris discography, accessed June 22, 2017
  3. ^ "12 O'Clock Track: The psychedelic drone-jazz of Eddie Harris's "Silver Cycles"". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  4. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed May 10, 2012