New from the Big City

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New from the Big City
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Live album by
Released1970
RecordedUnknown
New York City
Venue The Village Gate
Genre Jazz
Length37:59
Label Pacific Jazz
PJ 20173
Producer Richard Bock
Les McCann chronology
Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shampoo
(1961)
New from the Big City
(1970)
Stormy Monday
(1962)

New from the Big City is an album by pianist Les McCann released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1970. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Les McCann except as indicated

  1. "Gus Gus" – 2:45
  2. "Big City" (Marvin Jenkins) – 3:08
  3. "Come Back Baby" (Ray Charles) – 2:56
  4. "Steady Trompin'" – 4:35
  5. "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home" (Traditional) – 4:45
  6. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 2:55
  7. "Tenderly" (Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross) – 6:05
  8. "Beaux J. Poo Boo" – 8:10
  9. "Kathleen's Theme" – 2:40

Personnel

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References

  1. Freed., R. Les McCann Discography accessed 12 January 2016