Soul Hits

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Soul Hits
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Studio album by
Les McCann Ltd.
Released1963
RecordedOctober 29 & 30, 1963
Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz
Length34:14
Label Pacific Jazz
PJ 78
Producer Richard Bock
Les McCann chronology
The Gospel Truth
(1963)		Soul Hits
(1963)		 Jazz Waltz
(1964)

Soul Hits is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1963 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. [1] [2]

Les McCann American musician

Leslie Coleman McCann is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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).

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Allmusic gives the album 4 stars. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Back at the Chicken Shack" (Jimmy Smith) - 3:58
  2. "Sack O' Woe" (Cannonball Adderley) - 3:06
  3. "Groove Yard" (Carl Perkins) - 3:17
  4. "Sermonette" (Nat Adderley) - 2:30
  5. "Sonnymoon for Two" (Sonny Rollins) - 2:38
  6. "Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) - 3:00
  7. "Shiny Silk Stockings" (Frank Foster) - 3:55
  8. "Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) - 4:02
  9. "Li'l Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) - 3:38
  10. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) - 4:10

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.

Joe Pass American musician

Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century. He created possibilities for jazz guitar through his style of chord-melody, his knowledge of chord inversions and progressions, and his use of walking basslines and counterpoint during improvisation. Pass worked often with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.

Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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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 Soul Hits – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 12, 2016.
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