{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox album | name = Second Movement | type = Album | artist = [[Eddie Harris]] and [[Les McCann]] | cover = Second Movement.jpg | released = 1971 | recorded = January 25, 1971 | studio = [[Atlantic Studios|Atlantic]], New York City | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 38:35 | label = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]<br><small>SD 1583</small> | producer = [[Arif Mardin]] | chronology = [[Eddie Harris]] | prev_title = [[Live at Newport (Eddie Harris album)|Live at Newport]] | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = [[Instant Death (album)|Instant Death]] | next_year = 1971 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Les McCann]] | type = Album | prev_title = [[Comment (album)|Comment]] | prev_year = 1970 | title = Second Movement | year = 1971 | next_title = [[Invitation to Openness]] | next_year = 1972 }} }}
'''''Second Movement''''' is an album by American jazz saxophonist [[Eddie Harris]] and pianist/vocalist [[Les McCann]], recorded in 1971 and released on the [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] label.<ref name="Atlantic Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1500-series/#sd-1583 Atlantic Records discography] accessed May 15, 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.eddieharris.com/#discography Eddie Harris Discography], accessed June 22, 2017</ref> The album was a follow-up to the duo's highly successful live collaboration, ''[[Swiss Movement]]'' (Atlantic, 1969).
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 96 }}</ref> }} Though panned on its release, today [[AllMusic]] calls the album "a gem that continues to inspire a new generation of soul/jazz musicians".<ref name="Allmusic">Edelstein, P. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/second-movement-r140306/review AllMusic Review] accessed May 15, 2012</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated'' # "Shorty Rides Again" (Harris, Les McCann) – 8:31 # "Universal Prisoner" (Harris, McCann) – 5:00 # "Carry On Brother" – 7:11 # "Set Us Free" – 10:26 # "Samia" (McCann) – 7:32
==Personnel== *Eddie Harris – [[tenor saxophone]] *[[Les McCann]] – [[electric piano]], vocals *[[Cornell Dupree]] – electric guitar *[[Jimmy Rowser]] – [[double bass|bass]] *[[Jerry Jemmott]] – electric bass (tracks 1–3) *[[Donald Dean]] – drums *[[Buck Clarke]] – African drums, percussion *[[Bernard Purdie]] – [[tambourine]], drums *Judy Clay, [[Cissy Houston]], Rennelle Stafford, Deidre Tuck – vocals *Unidentified [[string section]] [[arrangement|arranged]] by [[Arif Mardin]] (track 2) *Unidentified horns and woodwinds (tracks 4 & 5)
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