The Harris original “Cold Duck Time” continues with a similar feel, an extrapolated blues vamp in the key of F. Horn men Eddie Harris and Benny Bailey take turns to blow some down home blues in between verses, surprisingly holding together brilliantly what was nothing more than a jam session to great effect. Kicking off with Gene McDaniels’ ‘Compared To What’, vocalist & pianist Les McCann sings this topical rant against Nixon and the Vietnam war over a funky backbeat. The session (on the last night of the festival) was a truly impromptu event – this particular line up had never played together before and at least half of the group had no idea what material they were going to play as they took the stage! Something of a happy accident, this recording from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival has actually become one of the most talked about, exhilarating and fun live jazz performances ever captured on wax. The tapes of this impromptu concert were originally recorded by the festival’s organisers and then passed on to Atlantic, who decided to release them after paying a fee of less than 100 dollars. 29 on the LP chart.Ī Billboard writer commented in 2006 that “what put Montreux on the recorded-live-in-concert map was the legendary Swiss Movement album”. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best jazz performance, small group. The album was a hit record, as was the accompanying single “Compared to What”, with both selling millions of units. Swiss Movement is a soul jazz live album recorded on Jat The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland by the Les McCann trio with saxophonist Eddie Harris and trumpeter Benny Bailey.
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