Album
Live At Montreux
1973 · Jazz
3 collectors on Gatefold own this
Live At Montreux is a Jazz album by Les McCann, originally released in 1973. On Gatefold: 26 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
About
Four years after <i>Swiss Movement</i> made stars out of Les McCann and Eddie Harris, McCann returned to the Montreux Jazz Festival for a performance that showed the evolution of the times, and his personal growth as a musician. <i>Live At Montreux</i> shows McCann in his leanest form, fronting a band with no horns and no guitars — only the bone-solid rhythms of drummer Donald Dean, bassist Jimmy Rowser and percussionist Buck Clarke. It is testament McCann’s magic touch that even in this bare-bones arrangement his songs sound warm and lush. Much of this is to do with his special relationship with the Fender Rhodes keyboard. This man was made for this instrument. Where other players from the era made the Rhodes a signifier of stoned atmospherics, McCann gives it all the soul of a congregational organ (with some stoned atmospherics thrown in for good measure, of course). Producer Joel Dorn made sure all of McCann’s albums from this era had a deep, naturalistic sound, but in this live setting the keyboardist and his band are even more at ease, yet tighter.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Cochise6:10
- A2Comment1:27
- A3Price You Gotta Pay To Be Free5:00
- A4What's Going On8:30
Side B
- B1North Carolina11:30
- B2Carry On Brother9:30
Side C
- C1With These Hands9:35
- C2Compared To What6:30
Side D
- D1Get Yourself Together15:23
- D2Home Again5:02
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Soul Jazz
- warm
- soulful
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Buck ClarkeDRUMS , PERCUSSION
- Donald DeanDRUMS
- Jimmy RowserBASS
- Les McCannPIANO, CLAVINET, PERCUSSION PIANO, CLAVINET, PERCUSSION, INSTRUMENTS PIANO, CLAVINET, PERCUSSION, OTHER
- Roland KirkFEATURING SAXOPHONE
3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 26 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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