Les McCann, acclaimed jazz pianist and vocalist whose greatest commercial success came with the 1969 song “Compared to What”, from his album Swiss Movement, criticizing the Vietnam War, has died. His ...
The road from Kentucky to Switzerland is as long as it is unlikely. We’re speaking of two countries with an ocean of culture vastly greater than the waters of the Atlantic separating them. But in 1969 ...
Les McCann, a jazz titan best known for his performance with musical partner Eddie Harris of the protest song "Compared to What," has died at age 88, his manager said Sunday. The cause and manner of ...
Most people know pianist Les McCann from two classic albums taped at the beginning and end of the 1960s: “Stormy Monday” (1962) a hit collaboration with the singer Lou Rawls that firmly put both of ...
Prior to the 1969 release of pianist Les McCann's hit live album Swiss Movement, I was never much of a fan. In the 1960s, on studio LPs, he seemed a melange of pianists I liked better, including Red ...
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