Wednesdays are typically the day that my colleague Peter Margasak contributes a 12 O'Clock Track, and in his honor I'm going to post a number that I think he might like: the title cut off deceased saxophonist (and Chicagoan) Eddie Harris's 1968 album Silver Cycles. To get a sense of what a lot of Silver Cycles sounds like, all you have to do is note that one track is called "1974 Blues"—even though the album was released six years before the year in that title.…
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