One of the funkiest opening bass lines,along with"The Sidewinder" And let's take a moment to remember the late Eddie Harris,the unsung genius and innovator of the saxophone....
It does! you just have to look for it,which can be exhausting,but when you find a gem among the others that stands out by it merits & not exposure alone,makes all the searching worthwhile!
Man this was my Mom's ABSOLUTE favorite song...in the world. THANK YOU SO MUCH for POSTING this. Damn. LOL!!! Rest In Peace Shirley Jean Robinson...gone but not forgotten. (Feb 7,1938 - May 19,2002)
I wonder how jazz would have fared had the Ertegun brothers not signed Led Zeppelin? Would they have continued to promote and sign the music as they did in the early '60's? Would jazz be the footnote it has become? It grieves me to see the state of music today. No one is making money except Google and Apple. RIP Eddie and thank you Les
I must, say Eddie is so clean and clear, the notes form sharp to flats, and his one of a kind way of bringing it to us, goes with out saying. Dangee................... BLESS HIM WITH ALL OUR HEARTS!
What a great melodic line... so many covers over the years. STILL holds up as one of the all time Jazz tunes. Thanks Eddie Harris for your energy, we still listen to your music R.I.P.
i remember when this album came out, this song and "compared to what" got heavy airplay on radio. totally cool stuff! still sounds "GROOVY". by the way, when this came out in 1969 i was 15, i'm now 64, keep on rockin' everybody.
How can we forget this one. Wow! It just gets better every time you hear it. With the new Eddie Who Re-Mix released around September 2017 this year you cannot go wrong listening to the Original Eddie Harris.
I just bought this LP on the flea market for 4€ and I did not know what I was buying, besides that is has Les McCann on it. Great album with a nice original Cold Duck Time and a fabulous Les McCann on the piano! Every song on the album contains one of his amazing solos.
I've been listening to this RU-vid feed of jazz greats & realized how pop musicians later bit chunks of their classics. But that is the norm for every branch of knowledge. Still, to hear it instead of being told is a powerful lesson.
this is the one that hooked me , now i play sax, First song i figured out. saw them in california do this song in a tiny place with a hundred or so people.
I absolutely love this song! Played it in a combo at a jazz camp, easily one of the best songs I played there. During one of our practices we repeated the ending "ed mortem." (Until death) Everyone started to compete for who could play the highest. By about the 12th time around, everyone was off their horns playing double F's and G's. I'm known in my school for my range, and soon started competing with a trumpet player. (Don't want to be rude or boastful at all, IT WAS JUST SO FUN TO PLAY) The other trombone player and I ended up on top of the trumpet player, both playing triple F's. Before it ended I hit a triple Bb, I never knew I had such range. It seems this song brought out the best in me. I'm so going to play this in every combo I can from now on!
Benny Bailey was really great and underrated. This album was my first exposure to him. I loved what he did with the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, and on his own. It was sad to hear of his passing.
My professor told me the story behind why people start cheering like mad in the middle of the trumpet solo at 3:20 - apparently Ella Fitzgerald was late to the festival and had just showed up, so everyone started cheering, haha!
I was ... & am still breathless . Not in France but over my table in Long Beach long ago. Too refined a place to stock Cold Duck so probaly settled for Asti . But it was awesome !
Hey Pops (RIP), Happy 70th Birthday !!! He wore this album out, I found the 30th Aniversary Edition CD for him in '06, he was one happy bro ! Thanks Pops, for being a jazz junkie...without you, I wouldn't know shit about jazz (LMAO) ! Time for another toast.....bring on the Crown Royal !
Eddie is as smooth as a piece of silk on this cut , Bennie Bailey is almost "miles-like on the trumpet, what a great musician .Grew up listening to this cut , still sounds good....
I’ve listened to this since about 1972. I always thought that ending was live, but after seeing the live performance at Montreux on RU-vid I realize it was edited!!
You got that right about Benny Bailey. Bad solo! I didn't even know he was on this; first time I'm listening to it; it got called at a jam session I was at tonight.
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I saw footage of this. When the crowd cheered during the trumpet solo it was for Elle Fitzgerald, who arrived late and was getting to her seat. Notice the trumpeter's instant flurry of notes, trying to impress her
@wedge4hire And mine too...the groove can't be beat. I like the tension between the straight eights on the cynbals and the swing of the actual melody. I first heard this when I was 15...and it just gets better with age ;)
