Stunningly repackaged, remastered, and featuring new liner notes by leading jazz writers, the Warner Jazz Masters Series includes best sellers as well as rare, sought-after gems. "Talk To The People" preaches earthily in the funky soul/jazz and R&B languages of the time. Having gone completely over to the Rhodes electric piano and Hohner clavinet, McCann became a fervent convert, indeed, he and Stevie Wonder were the funky-butt champs of the clavinet in the 1970s, and he could beat on them with the rhythmic snap of a conga drummer. `Shamading" may be the funkiest, hip-shaking thing Les has ever recorded; the cool, swaggering funkathon `North Carolina" runs a close second; and the best of the vocals is a gritty rendition of Marvin Gaye"s `What"s Going On".