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Leslie Coleman McCann (September 23, 1935 – December 29, 2023) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist. [1] [full citation needed] He is known for his innovations in soul jazz and his 1969 recording of the protest song "Compared to What". His music has been widely sampled in hip hop .
Jan 2, 2024 · Les McCann was already an established solo artist — a blues-forward jazz pianist in his 30s, with more than two dozen albums to his name — when he had a career-defining moment at the...
Jan 1, 2024 · Les McCann, a jazz pianist and vocalist who was an early progenitor of the bluesy, crowd-pleasing style that came to be known as soul jazz, and who, although he released more than 50...
Jan 2, 2024 · Les McCann, jazz musician with a politically charged hit, dies at 88 - The Washington Post. The pianist and singer’s 1969 antiwar song ‘Compared to What’ sold more than 1 million copies. He then...
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Jan 1, 2024 · Les McCann, the veteran jazz pianist who has been sampled countless times and is best known for the protest song 'Compared to What,' has died.
Jan 1, 2024 · McCann was an architect of the soul-jazz sound, helped jazz connect with the counterculture's protest music and provided a wellspring of material for...
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Jan 3, 2024 · The pianist Les McCann, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 88, was known for his song "Compared to What." But he had a long and celebrated expansive career that preceded — and followed — that hit.
