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This is my very first Les McCann CD. I'd heard of him before but hadn't heard anything by him and didn't really bother to search anything out. Then I got "Mint Jam", the 2001 live album by Yellowjackets and the breathtaking opening song, "Les Is Mo", is a tribute to the great man. I knew then that I had to search him out but I still didn't do anything for years. Silly me.

Then, earlier this year, I heard this album in a friend's house and I immediately knew where my Les McCann collection would begin. "[O]ne of the most stimulating and serendipitous live jazz performances ever captured on recordmore…," says Mike Hennessey on the CD cover and he's not exaggerating. Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, back in June 1969, McCann is joined here by the tenor sax giant Eddie Harris. He's another one I have to start looking for. Apart from his appearance on the 1994 John Scofield album "Hand Jive", coincidentslly an album which itself opens with a nod to McCann in "I'll Take Les", I'm ashamed to say I have nothing by him either. I obviously still have a long way to go.

Produced by Nesuhi Ertegun & Joel Dorn, Benny Bailey plays trumpet, Larry Vinnegar plays bass and Donald Dean is on the drums. The opening song, "Compared To What" is a real swinger with a vocal performance that just makes the heart smile. Good music never grows old and though this album was recorded almost 40 years ago, it still sounds fresh and is much more engaging than a lot of the stuff that is passed off as music today. You hear the applause and cheering of the audience lucky enough to have been there that day and you just can't help but smile. Each of the six songs on this album is simply brilliant.

Granted, I've come to this one very late but I intend to spread the word. If you love stomping jazz piano that you can literally dance to or even if you just love jazz, you must have this CD.

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CD

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Retail

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Title:

Les McCann, Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement: Montreux 30th Anniversary Edition (1996) Retail CD

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Back

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