Chewyrec: "The Winners"- Les Strand & The Yamaha

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

ok 1st of all theres not date on this lp, the cover looks soooooooooo 80s but really it -----could-----be from the late 70s...i dont know. i like how barney kessel & shelly manne are not "and friends" of just les but les + the yamaha organ. ok first off all, the 1st song is a up tempo swingin 'i dont know how to love him" (standard?) and ill im telling you is this les strand is going into keith emerson territory on this, some of his sounds hes getting from this are demented....not quite QX1 level of course but u can totally tell some of the same technologial ideas went into it. leonard feather wrote the liners. the cover is les + the organ chilin by a marina. it is a very refressing record, even if youre not rockin the all encompassing hammond, you can still rip it w/ shelly manne + barney kessel

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to put it another way, this record is like, the closest barney kessel ever got to playing in elp.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

dude who is this guy. i cant find much info on the net about him, some, not much. dude this guy is the white sun ra. im listening to a cover of "yesteday", it has to be the most un-sappiest version of it ever, omg- it has more incommon w/ discipline 27. part of it is this guys playing and part of it is the nature of the yamaha organ- together its a winning combo. any of you have any cd version of this? OH MY GOD THIS IS ONE JAZZ RECORD THAT COULD SOUND SOOOOOOOO GOOD PERHAPS ON CD, omG

[JSngry]