LES MCANN & EDDIE HARRIS "COMPARED TO WHAT" (reaction)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to “Compared To What” by
Les Mcann & Eddie Harris!
This song was suggested by our patron Shoutin' Chuck!
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Thanks for thanx for tribute to Les McCann R.I.P.
I was his drummer in the 70's
Harold Davis (Smiley)
WOW!!!!
VERY COOL!!!
I loved the drummer knocking the absolute snot out of the open hi hat all the way through. I too have heard this but had never seen it. These guys are the real deal. SHOUTIN CHUCK!!!! Great choice man!!!
Ha ha! That hi hat probably had dents by the end of the song.
Eddie Harris - tenor saxophone
Les McCann - piano, vocals
Benny Bailey - trumpet
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Donald Dean - drums
I’ve listened to this song at least 1000 times. Nuff said. BTW that’s Les on piano and Eddie on sax.
Quality jazz is always welcome - nice choice.
Absolutely love this; and never get tired of seeing this performance. Great choice.
My favorite track ever!!!! So tight! Check out the whole Swiss Movement Album!
Cold Duck Time is nice too
You can hear Les grumbling to the music if you listen hard😂💃💃one of the great ones RIP MR McCann❤
Damn! As real as it gets.
"Compared to What" was written by Gene McDaniels (who also wrote Roberta Flack's hit "Feel Like Makin' Love") in 1966, which makes the lyrics all that more remarkable for their time. It was first recorded that same year by jazz pianist Les McCann as a short album track. In 1969, Roberta Flack recorded a sizzling version for her debut LP "First Take", which was also released as her first single. Les McCann happened to be her manager at the time.
The version here, with saxophonist Eddie Harris, was from an impromptu performance at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival, which coincidentally occurred within days of the release of Flack's "First Take". Much of that performance was released a few months later as "Swiss Movement", which remains one of the greatest soul/jazz recordings of all time. It was also very successful, reaching the top of the jazz and R&B charts, and very high on the overall LP charts as well.
The song itself has been covered by close to 300 artists. Brian Auger's Oblivion Express released a highly lauded version on their 1973 album "Closer To It", which I place in my personal top three along with McCann/Harris and Flack.
Thanks for the backstory LRoi. Interesting stuff, especially about Roberta Flack!
Thanks so much for the whole story!
I am also of that era and the entire concert is great, trivia, during Benny’s solo, Ella Fitzgerald walks into the venue and the crowd applauds in recognition.
‘Cold Duck Time” “Generation Gap” “You Got it in your Soulness” are additional great tracks from this performance
I also highly recommend a listen to Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express - “Happiness is Just Around the Bend” is a cool, soulful dance groove
Also Brian’s covers of “Compared to What” and “Inner City Blues” and “Freedom Jazz Dance” are fire
Brian plays a Hammond B3 and is from Britain, played with Jimmy Hendrix!
Wow, how very interesting! Les was a consummate artist, able to manage Roberta, being an avid photographer, musician etc etc. Loved the guy R.I.P.. groovemeister!
Giving the performance of his life, Les tells an entire story with that opening piano solo. It's about finding your groove and cutting your path through a world filled with uncertainty and doubt.
He sure does. Beautifully said. Thanks for sharing!
Oh yeah! This was my jam back in the day! The "Swiss Movement" album is this group (collaboration really) performing live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. A lot of fusion was going on with jazz back in that time (Miles!). This was one of the early entrants in the jazz/soul/r&b fusion genre. The groove is contagious and the song is relevant even today. Thanks for the reaction SAD! Well done.
Thanks for sending this our way Shoutin Chuch!
Thanks for sending this our way Shoutin Chuch!
Oh maaaan, I enjoyed all points in your reactions. great job! Thanks Chuck for this selection! I banged my heal on the floor, played hi-hat and snare on my knees. I felt cool, hip and as if I still had it, which is surely my imagination. I was in a foul mood when I got home from work but all that has been washed away thanks to Les and Eddie, Chuck, Sifa And Dan. Thank You!
Glad you enjoyed it Bart! Thanks!
This song recently came into my realm of knowledge and I want MORE!
Ok, so Roberta Flack has an amazing take.
But number two, after Les and Eddie if course, is COL. BRUCE HAMPTON and the AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT.
Also, if you're on Spotify, I have 16- 8+ hour playlists called Rubber Chicken Music, and there's at least 4 more versions of this TRUTH.
Check em out. And Anything from Les and Eddie.
Seriously
Get it 30 or 40 albums.
many people did covers of this, but this guys play and sing it with URGENCY. This song is as relevant today as it was then. This recording is from the Montreux Jazz Festival and is the ONLY version s far as I am concerned. We can save this world but it will take everyone with a heart. love you guys!
and those solos!
Young folks out there might be interested to know that it was the first time Les McCann had ever smoked a joint. He took just a hit back Stage and said he was completely lost then he ‘got it together’ and the whole groove, the song took off!! You can see Eddie Harris is high …naturally, musically and any other wise!! Jazz is my bag!!
I heard this on WRVR then ran down to the record store to snatched it up.
This is probably the best example of Soul Jazz ever. Eddie Harris was one of the first play to employ electronics with his sax.
Iconic music recorded at the Montreau Jazz Festival. A big hit on jukeboxes but sadly never got much public exposure.
Love it.
The great Les Macanese on Keys, Eddie on Sax.
Les wrote and arranged this piece. There is so much to explore in jazz. Two of my favorites were released the year I was born 1959 Miles Davis great album Kind of Blue with “So
What” and Dave Brubeck “Time Out “ album with Take Five.
1959 was an incredible year for jazz. Classic albums by Miles, Brubeck, Coltrane, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, ... Something was in the water that year.
@@shoutinchuck3363
And best of all, I was born😎
@@kylehopkins1180 Oh yeah right, I forgot that part! 🙌
The song was written by the great Gene McDaniels
Thanks for the details Hoppy!
I love her reaction she knows music and lyrics when she hears ❤
Thanks for watching!
They did two albums together. The second one, Second Movement, first track, Shorty Rides Again is imho their masterpiece, if you want more, I suggest that one...
Thanks Mark!
Wow! Killer. Every element is perfect. Love it!
This comes from the album Swiss movent live from Montreux, another stand out song was Cold Duck time the fellow who wrote "Compared to what"was a genius named Eugene McDaniels.
Great reaction! This form of jazz is known as "jazz soul", a fusion of jazz and soul. I first heard this song on the "Atlantic Jazz: Soul" compilation album (a compilation of Jazz/Soul tunes by groups that worked under the Atlantic label, which is probably my favorite compilation album of all time). Then later I got the Swiss Movement album, which is the original Les McCann / Eddie Harris album that contains this song (in fact, this very performance), as well as the other songs they performed on that day.
Saw both of these guys live but not together. Both of them blew the audience away!
For more of this sound check out Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, a Jazz/Fusion band formed in the early 90's. "Time Is Free" or "Basically Frightened" will get you into them. Unfortunately, Col. Bruce passed in 2017.
I'd heard these guys before but never seen them. So glad it did. They were great (The dogs bollocks, chaz, lol). Everything works so well, piano setting the grove. Everyone of the brass solo's was terrific. The vocals were perfect for this music. AS Sifa said. you could a couple of Motown bits. At times I heard bits of Grand/Petite Wazoo, years before trendsetter Frank did it, lol. Always thought jazz musicians from this era, generally, were superior to most others, this sort of confirms it.
Great reaction Dan and Sifa. Great selection Chuck, loved this.
Bollocks!!!🤣🤣🤣
@@chazblitz It's such an adaptable word, lol.
I heard the first lyric melody from Aquarius. 😄
@@thecat600 Yeah Bart, there was a lot going on there. 🙂
@@thecat600 Yes! I heard that too Bart. "When the moooon is in the seventh house ...". Ha ha! Of course, if you can recognize that it must mean that you're a geezer. Ha ha!
This shit blew people away back then, that trumpet solo, Eddies style and attitude and the lyrics...legendary! edit: Suggestion, live version of 'Is That Jazz' by Gil Scott Heron would be cool.
Gil Scott Heron! Great idea. The revolution will NOT be televised! 😎
The sax man is Eddie Harris and Les McCann on the ivories.
This song puts more dips in your hips,more cut in your strut,and more glide in your stride,to quote an old DJ Frankie Crocker
This is a great historic "protest" jazz song. Thanks for playing. Take care.
Good God!! This was so funky......Les Mcann's voice is pure gold here, I would love it if you guys did some more classic jazz, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, etc etc....... BTW your mic panning is great but it needs swapping around so we hear it as you are in relation to onscreen, (Sifa right & Dan Left) currently it's Sifa's voice on the left channel & Dan's on the right.......just thought it was worth mentioning, thanks for another gem guys.
Thanks so much Sonic Art, we’ll fix those technical issues!
@@SightAfterDark No problem, just want it to sound right for you!
You should check out their album Live in the U.K. And if you want some real funky saxophone check out Eddie Harris"Funkarama"
Jazz became free from commercial pressure as early as late 40's/1950 as the bebop revolution changed jazz forever -and commercial swing was basically dead. Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Kenny Clarke changed the language of modern music. And it happened right in New York City! Minton's playhouse is still there!
Thanks for the history Larry!
Oh man, this is a fuckin' classic. Les Mcann grooves! Do you know that Les Mann plays piano on Zappa's Freak Out?
Oh wow, we did not! Thanks Carlos!
old classic ''compared to what''.......nice
Plug Me In, just like I was Eddie Harris!!
This may be the coolest thing ever.
Re: trumpet. The technique is Harmon mute and it’s the raspberry…i find it hard you guys don’t know about these cats. Les McCann died Dec 29, 2023. Eddie Harris (sax) played with him for years. Read the obituary.
Hard bop.
Oh yeah
I need Some Money Album Eddie Harris. Talk To The People Les Mccann
Bravo! Love Les McCann. Look up 'Invitation To Openness' Masterpiece!
Thank you! Will do!
Needs more cowbell! lol Great album.. try "Cold Duck Time'
Before Rap music came, this blockbuster protest “rant” soul jazz masterpiece came. This didn’t get much radio or tv air time then because of its angry, irreverent lyrics and socio-political messaging-but this was groundbreaking at that time. Appreciate your reaction.
Thanks for being here Brian!
Did you mean "You Really Got A Hold On Me"?
Don’t forget Benny Bailey who stole the show and not only that but on cold duck
Shoutout to Benny!
It might help in your commentary if you were a bit more informed about the featured artist. "The guy on the saxophone"?????
lol apparently you don’t understand the concept of a reaction video
You missed Age of Aquarius in the intro... Or at least were silent
Have you ever gone down a RESIDENTS rabbit hole?
We have not
This is a protest song as tomely, even more so today with trump and his racists. As with nixon and his.
That's sir Jimmy Page...The Sellout..With sir bob plant..The Sellout...The only true artist left is....Johnny Rotten & Keith Richard's
True artists don't support Trump...
😆
68 i'm in high school. my music and band teachers lived across the street. They turned me on to music that was not on the radio. Mose Allison and these guys. Their son died in vietnam. This a vietnam war protest song..Their son played with his rock band on their large yard on our culdusac. One day the music died. Gene McDaniels wrote the song. born in kanss city kansas grew up in Omaha. I live in Omaha my wife is black and I haven't met any one who even knows who he was.