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 Les McCann
Layers
Atlantic | 1972
Waddup troopers? Jazztro is back from a trip to magnificent Rome, and besides pickin up honey dips at ‘the Spanish Stairs’, I’ve managed to dig out this classic break album from the funkiest piano player alive: Mr Les McCann. Real crate diggers know all about this album, caus it has like a dozen pieces that were sampled. Diamond D, Pete Rock, Lord Finesse, Prince Paul: they’ve all hooked something up from this piece and converted it in a hip-hop form.
The album is characterised by its hallucinatin and twisted synth sound, which makes it a revolutionary LP for the time. Fantastic songs are the opening track ‘Sometimes I Cry’, a groovy, down-tempo cut that was sampled on Slick Rick’s ‘Behind Bars’, ‘The Dunbar Highschool Marchin’ with its fantastic intro (sampled on Ed O.G.’s ‘Streets of the Ghetto’ eg.), and the incredible ‘The Harlem Buck Dance Strut’, sampled by Pete Rock a.o., with its slammin snare and psychedelic Fender Rhode sounds.
This is an all-time top ten keyboard album and its time waaaay ahead. Find it for not thŕt much money; however, some sellers dare to ask a lot for the original copy… this Italian salesman didn’t! Arrividerci.
posted by: Jazztro | 03-20-2005 |
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