Pourquoi L'Amérique

Soundtrack album by Eddie Harris

Released

1970

Recorded

1968
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

38:39

Label

AZ
STEC LP 68

Producer

Ahmet Ertegun and Joel Dorn

Eddie Harris chronology

Plug Me In
(1968)

Pourquoi L'Amérique
(1968)

Silver Cycles
(1968)

Pourquoi L'Amérique (translation: Why America) is a soundtrack album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1968 for the documentary of the same name on American history from 1917 to 1939 by French film director Frédéric Rossif and released on the French AZ label.^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated

"Pourquoi L'Amérique" – 3:30
"La Terre" – 5:00
"Odeur de la Poudre" – 3:45
"Musique pour un Massacre" – 4:04
"Mort d'un Ennemi Public" – 2:40
"Pourquoi L'Amérique (Deuxième Version)" – 1:51
"New Deal" – 3:39
"Prelude to Pearl Harbor" – 1:50
"Civilisation de Consommation" – 2:00
"Grèves Sauvages" – 1:40
"Parfois la Guerre" – 1:55
"Raisins de la Colère" – 3:30
Pourquoi L'Amérique (Troisième Version)" – 3:15

Personnel

Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone, varitone
Jodie Christian – piano
Melvin Jackson – bass
Billy Hart – drums

References

↑ Eddie Harris discography accessed May 16, 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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