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Les McCann / The Mitchell-Ruff Trio: 20 Special Fingers
by Jim Santella
The twenty fingers in the title for this double reissue CD come from two exciting piano trios of the 1960s. Both Les McCann and Dwike Mitchell offer blues-based, gospel influenced piano storytelling on their Atlantic albums Much Les and The Catbird Seat, respectively. McCann was at the peak of his career then, still using an acoustic ...
Les McCann/Mitchell-Ruff Trio: Twenty Special Fingers
by C. Andrew Hovan
The idea goes like this. The hip and jazz-loving Joel Dorn and his folks as 32 Jazz have decided to introduce a series whereby they put out two albums by different artists that are somehow related in one package. This two-disc set brings together two Atlantic classics, the previously available Much Les from Les McCann and ...
Les McCann/The Mitchell-Ruff Trio: 20 Special Fingers
by Douglas Payne
20 Special Fingers is an unusual two-disc combination of Les McCann's 1968 Atlantic debut, Much Les (already available on CD as a Rhino two-fer) with the Mitchell-Ruff Trio's 1961 Atlantic debut, The Catbird Seat. Joel Dorn, producer of the McCann set and owner of the label that issued this set, explains this oddity ...
How's Your Mother? (Live In New York 1967)
By Les McCann
Label: Jazz Heritage
Released: 1998
Track listing: Love For Sale; I Can Dig It; Doin' that Thing; I Am In Love; Goin' Out Of my head; Sunny; Blues; The Shampoo.
Les McCann: How's Your Mother?
by Robert Spencer
“How's Your Mother?" is a live date from 1967 that has lain in the can from then to now---not because there is anything lacking about it (quite the contrary!) but as a testament to the cornucopia of great music that was lying around everywhere in 1967, so that Trane's Interstellar Space (and around a hundred others) ...
Les McCann: How's Your Mother?
by Douglas Payne
This intriguing, previously unreleased set captures Les McCann's working trio with bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Frank Severino live at the Village Vanguard on July 16, 1967. It's an exceptionally well recorded fifty-minute set that mixes four group originals with two Cole Porter tunes and two unfortunate pop staples of McCann's ("Goin' Out of My Head," ...
Les McCann: Talkin' Verve: Les McCann
by Douglas Payne
Perhaps as good as any compilation can get, Les McCann: Talkin' Verve hardly lives up to its acid-jazz premise or its subject's real talents. Still, it does rescue some of the lost music pianist/vocalist Les McCann made over six albums for the Limelight label between 1964 and 1967. Seems the folks at Verve were going for ...
CTI Acid Jazz Grooves
Label: CTI Records
Released: 1997
Track listing: Knock on Wood; Tombo in 7/4-Ake/Celebration Suite;
Midnight Woman;
Morocco;
Skyscrapers;
The Prophet;
Sister Sanctified;
Loran's Dance;
Another Star;
People Make the World Go Round;
Road Warriors.
Pacifique
By Les McCann
Label: MusicMasters Jazz
Released: 1997
Track listing: What's Goin' On; Amazing Grace; Little Blue Volkswagen; Pacifique; Bare Blues; Prince Of Peace; Cold Duck Time; What A Wonderful World; With These Hands; Come Rain Or Come Shine;
