Live at Montreux (Les McCann album)

Live at Montreux
Live at Montreux
Live album by Les McCann
Released	1973
Recorded	June 24, 1972
Venue	Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre	Jazz
Length	78:37
Label	Atlantic; SD 2-312
Producer	Joel Dorn
Les McCann chronology

Live at Montreux is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1972 and released on the Atlantic label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Allmusic gave the album a 4 stars, stating "Atlantic got enough from McCann's set to put out a hot double album loaded with gritty vocals, gospel-drenched electric piano, cooking instrumentals, plenty of his popular protest songs, and a few new numbers such as the driving "Cochise"".^[3]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Les McCann except as indicated

"Cochise" – 6:10
"Comment" (Yusuf Rahman, Charles Wright) – 1:27
"Price You Gotta Pay to Be Free" (Nat Adderley) – 5:00
"What's Going On" (Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) – 8:30
"North Carolina" – 11:30
"Carry on Brother" (Eddie Harris) – 9:30
"With These Hands" (Benny Davis, Abner Silver) – 9:35
"Compared to What" (Gene McDaniels) – 6:30
"Get Yourself Together" (Les McCann, Rev. Bee) – 15:23
"Home Again" (Les McCann, Rahsaan Roland Kirk) – 5:02

Personnel[edit]

Les McCann – piano, vocals, clavinet, percussion, miscellaneous instruments
Jimmy Rowser – bass
Donald Dean – drums
Buck Clarke – African drums, percussion
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone (tracks 9 & 10)

References[edit]

^ Atlantic Records Discography: 1972 accessed March 8, 2016
^ Freed., R. Les McCann Discography accessed March 8, 2016
^ ^a ^b Ginell, Richard S.. Live at Montreux – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 8, 2016.

[1] Atlantic Records Discography: 1972 accessed March 8, 2016

[2] Freed., R. Les McCann Discography accessed March 8, 2016

[Allmusic-3] Ginell, Richard S.. Live at Montreux – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 8, 2016.

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v t e Les McCann
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted. As Les McCann Ltd is often used in the titles for the albums up to 1964, this has been omitted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	It's About Time (with Teddy Edwards, 1959) The Truth (1960) The Shout (1960) In San Francisco (1960) From the Top of the Barrel (1960) Groove (with Richard "Groove" Holmes and Ben Webster, 1961) In New York (1961) Plays the Shampoo (1961) New from the Big City (1961) Pretty Lady (1961) Les McCann Sings (1961) Somethin' Special (with Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1962) On Time (1962) The Gospel Truth (1963) Soul Hits (1963) Jazz Waltz (with The Jazz Crusaders, 1963) A Bag of Gold (1963–64) McCanna (1964) Spanish Onions (1964) McCann/Wilson (with Nancy Wilson (1964) But Not Really (1964) Beaux J. Pooboo (1965) Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole (1965) Les McCann Plays the Hits (1966) Bucket o' Grease (1966) Live at Bohemian Caverns - Washington, DC (1967) Much Les (1968) Swiss Movement (and Eddie Harris, 1969) Comment (1969) Invitation to Openness (1971) Second Movement (with Eddie Harris, 1971) Layers (1972) Live at Montreux (1972) Talk to the People (1972) Another Beginning (1974)
With others	Tell It Like It Tis (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1962) Stormy Monday (with Lou Rawls, 1962) That's Where It's At (Stanley Turrentine, 1962) Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984) Go Tell It on the Mountain (The Blind Boys of Alabama, 2003)
Soundtracks	Soul To Soul (1971)