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Joja Wendt: Pacifique

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Label: nullviernull Records
Released: 1998.02.10
Time:
 42:27
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Alan Abrahams
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jojawendt.de
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Purchase date: 2003.04.10
Price in €: 11,99



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[1] What's Going On (Benson/Cleveland) - 5:07
[2] Amazing Grace (arr. L.McCann) - 4:17
[3] Little Blue Volkswagen (L.McCann) - 2:37
[4] Pacifique (J.Wendt) - 2:38
[5] Bare Blues (L.McCann/J.Wendt) - 4:12
[6] Prince of Pease (L.McCann/J.Hendricks) - 6:39
[7] Cold Duck Time (E.Harris) - 2:10
[8] What a Wonderful World (Weiss/Thiele) - 4:27
[9] With These Hands (Silverand/M.Davies) - 6:46
[10] Come Rain or Come Shine (Mercer/Aden) - 3:22

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JOJA WENDT - Grand Piano
LES MCCANN - Lead Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Arranger

ANSELM KLUGE - Bass on [1], Photography, Supervisor
CHRISTOPH BUCHSE - Drums on [1]

DEAN BURT - Engineer
TRAY STOKES - Assistant Engieer
WALTER THIELSCH - Sleeve Design

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1998 CD nullviernull HH-97001-2

Recorded and mixed January 1997 at Pacifique Studios, North Hollywood, L.A.



Les McCann carried on with his music despite suffering a serious stroke in 1995, although he often needed the help of a second keyboardist. While McCann's first recording after his stroke, Listen Up!, was little more than a workmanlike reminder that he was back, his second, Pacifique, is a joy despite, or perhaps because, of its unusual, stripped-down format. The CD consists of a series of duets where Les comps on Fender Rhodes electric piano, exercises his gravelly voice, and finds a helping hand and soulmate in the rollicking acoustic piano of European keyboardist Joja Wendt. Many of the tunes are remakes, often fine ones, of past McCann rousers like "What's Goin' On," "With These Hands," and a rumbling, scatted "Cold Duck Time" (in memoriam, Eddie Harris). Ever a devotee of the sacred and the profane, Les offers deeply felt renditions of "Amazing Grace" and "Prince of Peace" (formerly known as "The Longer You Wait") almost back-to-back with some lascivious blues, while also celebrating life with "What a Wonderful World." Pacifique is probably the best, most truthful record Les has made in at least 20 years, for at last, the real bawdy, devout, soulful, swinging Les McCann is back.

Richard S. Ginell - All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2003 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
 

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