Silver Cycles

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".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated

"Free at Last" - 3:15
"1974 Blues" - 4:22
"Smoke Signals" - 2:55
"Coltrane's View" (Jodie Christian) - 4:08
"I'm Gonna Leave You by Yourself" - 3:00
"Silver Cycles" (Harris, Melvin Jackson) - 5:50
"Little Bit" - 5:29
"Electric Ballad" - 2:54
"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

Eddie Harris - tenor saxophone, varitone
Jodie Christian (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 9), Joe Zawinul (track 7) - piano
Richard Davis (tracks 3, 5 & 7), Melvin Jackson (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 9) - bass
Monk Montgomery - electric bass (track 7)
Bruno Carr (tracks 1, 2 & 6-8), Billy Hart (tracks 3, 5 & 7), Richard Smith (tracks 4 & 9) - drums
Bernie Glow (track 1), Melvin Lastie (track 2), Joe Newman (tracks 1 & 2), Ernie Royal (tracks 1 & 7), Snooky Young (tracks 2 & 7) - trumpet
Benny Powell - trombone (tracks 1 & 2)
Phil Bodner, (track 7), Seldon Powell (tracks 1, 2 & 7) - tenor saxophone
Haywood Henry - baritone saxophone (tracks 2 & 7)
Marcelino Valdez - percussion (tracks 6 & 8)
Eileen Gilbert, Melba Moore, Valerie Simpson, Maeretha Stewart - vocals (tracks 3 & 5)
Unidentified string section conducted by Gene Orloff (tracks 3 & 5)

References

↑ Atlantic Records discography accessed May 10, 2012
1 2 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed May 10, 2012

Eddie Harris

Studio albums	Exodus to Jazz (1961) Mighty Like a Rose (1961) Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) A Study in Jazz (1962) Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies (1962) Bossa Nova (1963) For Bird and Bags (1964) Cool Sax, Warm Heart (1964) Here Comes the Judge (1964) Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1965) The In Sound (1965) Mean Greens (1966) The Tender Storm (1967) The Electrifying Eddie Harris (1968) Plug Me In (1968) Silver Cycles (1968) Free Speech (1969) Come on Down! (1970) Second Movement (1971) Instant Death (1971) Eddie Harris Sings the Blues (1972) Excursions (1973) E.H. in the U.K. (1974) Is It In (1974) I Need Some Money (1974) Bad Luck Is All I Have (1975) That Is Why You're Overweight (1975) The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t 1976 (1975) How Can You Live Like That? (1976)

Live albums	High Voltage (1969) Swiss Movement (1969) Live at Newport (1970)

Soundtrack albums	Pourquoi L'Amérique (1968)

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