}} The album was nominated for a
Grammy Award in the category of best jazz performance, small group. It reached No. 1 on
Billboard's jazz album chart, No. 2 on the R&B chart, and No. 29 on the LP chart.
Harvey Pekar, writing for
DownBeat in a contemporary review, panned the album as "cliche-ridden". Writing in
AllMusic,
Richie Unterberger calls
Swiss Movement "one of the most popular soul jazz albums of all time, and one of the best." The tapes of this impromptu concert were originally recorded by the festival's organisers and then passed on to Atlantic, who decided to release them after paying a fee of less than
$100. McCann and Harris teamed up again for a follow-up recording,
Second Movement, released in 1971. ==Track listing==