Les McCann featuring Lou Rawls - Essential Works 1960-1962

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: MOJ118
Barcode: 3760300312490
Release Date: 06 May 2022
Genre: Jazz

Pressed on standard weight black double vinyl

TRACKLISTING:
A1. Vacushna
A2. Fish This Week but Next Week Chitlings
A3. For Carl Perkins
A4. The Truth
B1. A Little ¾ For God and Co.
B2. Oat Meal
B3. Little Girl from Casper
B4. Chip Monk
C1. One More Ham Hock Please
C2. Gone On and Get That Church
C3. Pia
D1. They Call it Stormy Monday
D2. God Bless The Child
D3. Willow Weep For Me
D4. Lost and Lookin'
D5. Blues is a Woman

Coleman Leslie McCann, known as Les McCann, is arguably the most soulful jazz pianist of the sixties. All you have to do to be convinced of this is to go and listen to him, all business ceasing, with Eddie Harris, in concert in Montreux, on June 21, 1969. This recording is a monument in the history of soul jazz.

But before this concert, the trio of Les McCann with Herbie Lewis and Ron Jefferson, imposed a new style characterized by joy and pleasure, to play, to groove, to listen. Impossible in a Les McCann concert not to participate in his joy, in his desire to share, impossible not to beat time.

The recordings of this album from 1960 to 1962 are a turning point which participates in the swing of jazz into a new world. If today, the world of jazz includes all soul music, it is because some musicians like Les McCann naturally, in the early sixties, abolished borders and classifications.

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