title: Layers (Les McCann album)
text: # 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
  