Layers (Les McCann album)
# Layers (Les McCann album)

Layers is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1972 and released on the Atlantic label.

## Reception

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |

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
