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Still riding high from "Listen Here," Harris really started experimenting here with a dazzlingly eclectic LP that must have left his new fans wondering just who the real Eddie Harris was. There is good old Latinized funk in the opening cuts, "Free at Last" and "1974 Blues," but what was one to make of the next one, "Smoke Signals," with its interplanetary Echoplexed electric sax and ethereal wordless female voices? Then it's on to a long-limbed Coltrane tribute on pianist Jodie Christian's "Naima"-like "Coltrane's View," a wailing cry of raw pain with a huge band of horns, strings and voices ("I'm Gonna Leave You by Yourself"), another avant-garde electronic extravaganza ("Silver Cycles") and...well, you get the point; there's a surprise around every bend. 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. The sound was always curiously distant on LP and on individual tracks reissued on CD; one wonders if this was due to a damaged or third-hand master tape.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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EDDIE HARRIS, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - TOM DOWD, Engineer - Ron Carter, Bass Guitar - Nesuhi Ertegun, Producer - Billy Higgins, Drums - CEDAR WALTON, Piano
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Arif Mardin, Producer - William Fischer, Brass Arranger - Joe Newman, Trumpet - Seldon Powell, Additional Saxophone - EDDIE HARRIS, Composer, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Joel Dorn, Producer - Mel Lastie, Trumpet - Jodie Christian, Piano - Phil Iehle, Engineer - Richard Smith, Drums - Adrian Barber, Engineer - Snooky Young, Trumpet - Bennie Powell, Trombone
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation
EDDIE HARRIS, Writer, Performance, MainArtist
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
EDDIE HARRIS, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - TOM DOWD, Engineer - Ron Carter, Bass Guitar - Nesuhi Ertegun, Producer - Billy Higgins, Drums - CEDAR WALTON, Piano
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
EDDIE HARRIS, Composer, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - TOM DOWD, Engineer - Ron Carter, Bass Guitar - Nesuhi Ertegun, Producer - Billy Higgins, Drums - CEDAR WALTON, Piano
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Arif Mardin, Producer - EDDIE HARRIS, Composer, Additional Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Writer, MainArtist - Ray Barretto, Percussion - Melvin Jackson, Bass Guitar, Writer - Jodie Christian, Piano - Phil Iehle, Engineer - Richard Smith, Drums - Joe Wohletz, Percussion
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation
EDDIE HARRIS, Writer, Musician, MainArtist
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation
EDDIE HARRIS, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - TOM DOWD, Engineer - Ron Carter, Bass Guitar - Nesuhi Ertegun, Producer - Billy Higgins, Drums - CEDAR WALTON, Piano
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
EDDIE HARRIS, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - TOM DOWD, Engineer - Ron Carter, Bass Guitar - Nesuhi Ertegun, Producer - Billy Higgins, Drums - CEDAR WALTON, Piano
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Album review
Still riding high from "Listen Here," Harris really started experimenting here with a dazzlingly eclectic LP that must have left his new fans wondering just who the real Eddie Harris was. There is good old Latinized funk in the opening cuts, "Free at Last" and "1974 Blues," but what was one to make of the next one, "Smoke Signals," with its interplanetary Echoplexed electric sax and ethereal wordless female voices? Then it's on to a long-limbed Coltrane tribute on pianist Jodie Christian's "Naima"-like "Coltrane's View," a wailing cry of raw pain with a huge band of horns, strings and voices ("I'm Gonna Leave You by Yourself"), another avant-garde electronic extravaganza ("Silver Cycles") and...well, you get the point; there's a surprise around every bend. 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. The sound was always curiously distant on LP and on individual tracks reissued on CD; one wonders if this was due to a damaged or third-hand master tape.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:55
- Main artists: Eddie Harris
- Composer: Eddie Harris
- Label: Rhino Atlantic
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1968 Atlantic Records ℗ 1968 Atlantic Records. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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