Spanish Onions

Spanish Onions
Live album by Les McCann
Released	1966
Recorded	1964 ; Esquire Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:44
Label	Pacific Jazz ; PJ 10097
Producer	Richard Bock
Les McCann chronology

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Spanish Onions is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1964 at a concert at the Esquire Theater in Los Angeles, CA., and released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1966.^[1]^[2]

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).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Allmusic gives the album 4 stars.^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Les McCann except as indicated

"El Soulo" - 3:16
"Lavande" - 6:40
"Spanish Onions" - 8:50
"Get Them Grits" - 4:30
"I Am in Love" (Cole Porter) - 5:30
"Arabella" - 5:43
"Maxie's Farewell" - 5:15

Personnel

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.

Roderick Victor Gaskin, born The Bronx, New York, November 23, 1934 and was a jazz bassist. He died on July 14, 2012 in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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References

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

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[1] Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10000/20000 series accessed January 12, 2016

[2] Freed., R. Les McCann Discography accessed January 12, 2016

[Allmusic-3] 1 2 Spanish Onions – Listing at AllMusic . Retrieved January 12, 2016.

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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)