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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...
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 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.
Jan 2, 2024 · Les McCann, a musician who helped shape the “soul jazz” style of the 1960s with his earthy piano playing and singing and whose live recording of the antiwar anthem “Compared to What” became a...
Jan 3, 2024 · Les (Leslie Coleman) McCann, pianist, singer and composer, born 23 September 1935; died 29 December 2023
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.
