Auch Jimmy Smith kommt im Penguin Guide nicht sehr gut weg.
„Swiss Movement“ kriegt **1/2 (maximal sind aber nur **** zu haben) und es steht kaum was dazu:
A hit album in its time, the appeal of Swiss Movement has faded fairly drastically. Cut live at Montreux, it’s a ragged set of soul-jazz vamps, with a probably definitive version of McCann’s ‚Compared to What‘, but the excitement is mitigated by what remains atrocious sound, even for a live session. Bailey’s slo on ‚You Got It In Your Soulness‘ offers the best moment, but overall the revival of interest in soul-jazz has uncovered many better records than this.
~ Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jaz on CD, Third Edition, 1996, S. 871f.
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