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2 de ene. de 2024 · News. Has Influenced. Already established on the soul jazz scene of the 1960s, Les McCann became an international jazz superstar with the release of “Swiss Movement,” recorded at the 1968 Montreux Jazz Festival with the late Eddie Harris. The album generated a multi-million selling hit single, "Compared To What," and placed McCann and ...
3 de ene. de 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.
Les McCann reached the peak of his career at the 1968 Montreux Jazz Festival, recording “Compared to What” and “Cold Duck Time” for Atlantic (Swiss Movement) with Eddie Harris and Benny Bailey. Although he has done some worthwhile work since then, much of it has been anticlimactic. McCann first gained some fame in 1956 when he won a ...
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1 de ene. de 2024 · Jazz pianist and singer Les McCann, best known for his raucous live single “Compared to What” from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival and later sampled heavily by hip-hop artists, died Friday at ...
Les McCann (born September 23, 1935, Lexington, Kentucky - died December 29, 2023) was a jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into Soul Jazz and Boogaloo. Sites:lesmccannunlimited.com, Wikipedia, Imdb, users.rcn.com: In Groups:
3 de ene. de 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 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival. There, during an impromptu jam with the saxophonist Eddie Harris, he dug into a new song by his friend Gene McDaniels, which struck a cultural nerve.
