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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
OLD SCHOOL SOUL AT ITS BEST!,
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This review is from: Live at Montreux (Audio CD)
This one is from the days when activist politics mixed with real, swinging music. Les McCann was truly the "High Priest" of soul jazz and this album is testimony. Unlike the more famous, 69' Montreaux album which included Eddie Harris in classic performances, this 1972 version is without horn, except for a cameo solo by Rahsan Roland Kirk on "Carry On Brother".Nevertheless, this is powerful McCann on vocal and piano. Buy this one!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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"Old School" Soul at its best!,
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This review is from: Live at Montreux (Audio CD)
Musical anthropologists would do well to proble deeply into the soul jazz era of the late sixties-early seventies as personified by Les McCann. His work at the old Bohemian Caverns in DC, and his Atlantic records collaborations with Roberta Flack, Eddie Harris, Roland Kirk and others are classic. Listeners will find a combination of real, swinging music and political awareness. Undoubtedly it is the political awareness that frightened away so-called "mainstream" acceptance of this great and powerful music. Eddie Harris is missing on this 1972 Montreaux effort (after the 1969 Montreaux classic session), but the band, and McCann are just as powerful, just as swinging. Invest in this album and contemplate golden days (pre-"rap") when activist politics had dynamic theme music played by real musicians!
4 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Buyer beware!,
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This review is from: Live at Montreux (Audio CD)
Look, I know that funk was becomming tops in the 70's. But while some may like the music, some may like the beat, this album stinks in terms of the recording and much of the music. It is like really bad theater, no understandable purpose. The Fender Rhodes mentioned in other reviews? It is so badly distorted you'll swear your speakers or amp are ... up. Then the music, Les McCann had a very political period, and as I analize it, by the way he sold out in the 80's, he'd sell out for whatever was campy at the time, to hell with the art of it. He really did some great work with Lou Rawls (which makes a more honest statement about the black experience than all that "power" stuff this one has. Also listen to Swiss Movement and especially "Compared To What" is his best and most musically compelling effort. This disc just does not have it. Oh, and emotion? Listen to "With These Hands" on his "Much Les" disc, you'll renew your marriage vows on that one dude!
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