Silver Cycles

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title: "Silver Cycles" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["eddie-harris-albums", "1969-albums", "albums-produced-by-arif-mardin", "albums-produced-by-joel-dorn", "atlantic-records-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Cycles" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Silver Cycles
type	Album
artist	Eddie Harris
cover	Silver Cycles.jpg
released	1969
recorded	September 4 and December 3, 1968
New York City
genre	Jazz
length	38:29
label	Atlantic
SD 1517
producer	Arif Mardin and Joel Dorn
chronology	Eddie Harris
prev_title	Pourquoi L'Amérique
prev_year	1968
next_title	High Voltage
next_year	1969
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| name = Silver Cycles | type = Album | artist = Eddie Harris | cover = Silver Cycles.jpg | alt = | released = 1969 | recorded = September 4 and December 3, 1968 New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 38:29 | label = Atlantic SD 1517 | producer = Arif Mardin and Joel Dorn | chronology = Eddie Harris | prev_title = Pourquoi L'Amérique | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = High Voltage | next_year = 1969

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

Reception

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". | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score =

Track listing

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

• 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

References

1. [http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1500-series/#sd-1517 Atlantic Records discography] accessed May 10, 2012
2. [http://www.eddieharris.com/#discography Eddie Harris discography], accessed June 22, 2017
3. "12 O'Clock Track: The psychedelic drone-jazz of Eddie Harris's "Silver Cycles"".
4. Ginell, R. S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/silver-cycles-r140307/review Allmusic Review] accessed May 10, 2012

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