Layers (Les McCann album)

AllMusic gives the album 4½ stars, stating "This groundbreaking jazz synthesizer record is really unlike any other Les McCann ever made. Aside from a three-man percussion section and electric bassist Jimmy Rowser, Layers is entirely electronic, one of the first jazz albums with such an emphasis. ...this music is truly forward-looking and ahead of its time". The song "Sometimes I Cry" has been sampled in several other songs, most notably in Slick Rick's "Behind Bars" and its drum beat in Massive Attack's "Teardrop" and "Bullet Boy". == Track listing ==

All compositions by Les McCann • "Sometimes I Cry" - 5:22 • "Let's Gather" - 1:13 • "Anticipation" - 0:52 • "The Dunbar High School Marching Band" - 6:07 • "Soaring (At Dawn) Part I"- 5:54 • "The Harlem Buck Dance Strut" - 5:55 • "Interlude" - 0:33 • "Before I Rest" - 3:43 • "Let's Play ('til Mom Calls)" - 4:26 • "It Never Stopped in My Home Town" - 1:54 • "Soaring (At Sunset) Part II" - 8:03 == Personnel ==

• Les McCann - piano, electric piano, synthesizer, clavinet, drums, timpani • Jimmy Rowser - bass, electric bass, bells, percussion • Donald Dean - drums, bells, percussion • Buck Clarke - congas, drums, bongos, blocks, bells, percussion • Ralph MacDonald - congas, bells, percussion == References ==