McCann/Wilson

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McCann/Wilson
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Studio album by Les McCann with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra
Released 1965
Recorded 1964
Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Length30:50
Label Pacific Jazz
PJ 91
Producer Richard Bock
Les McCann chronology
McCanna
(1964)		McCann/Wilson
(1965)		 But Not Really
(1965)
Gerald Wilson chronology
Portraits
(1964)		McCann/Wilson
(1964)		 On Stage
(1965)

McCann/Wilson is an album by pianist Les McCann with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra recorded in 1964 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. [1] [2]

Les McCann American musician

Leslie Coleman McCann is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

Gerald Wilson American trumpetist

Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer/arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. In addition to being a band leader, Wilson wrote arrangements for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.

Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded in 1952 by producer Richard Bock (1927–1988) and drummer Roy Harte (1924–2003). Harte, in 1954, also co-founded Nocturne Records with jazz bassist Harry Babasin (1921–1988).

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic gives the album 3 stars. [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Les McCann except as indicated

  1. "Could Be" - 6:06
  2. "Stragler" - 2:36
  3. "Restin' in Jail" - 3:53
  4. "Bailor the Wailor" - 3:05
  5. "Maleah" - 4:00
  6. "Lot of Living to Do" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) - 4:58
  7. "Kathleen's Theme" - 2:58
  8. "Gus Gus" - 3:14

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Teddy Edwards American musician

Theodore Marcus Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist on the west coast of the U.S.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10000/20000 series accessed January 12, 2016
  2. ↑ Freed., R. Les McCann Discography accessed January 12, 2016
  3. 1 2 McCann/Wilson – Listing at AllMusic . Retrieved January 12, 2016.
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