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Les McCann, the legendary jazz pianist who has been sampled countless times and is perhaps best known for the protest song “Compared to What,” died Friday at a Los Angeles area hospital, his ...
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 ...
Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of ...
Leslie Richard McKeown was born in Broomhouse, a suburb close to the south-western city limit of Edinburgh, on 12 November 1955. [1] [2] His father, Francis, worked as a tailor and was deaf; [1] [3] his mother, Florence (née Close), was a seamstress [2] who moved to Scotland after getting married. [1]
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock group known for their worldwide teen idol popularity as a boy band in the 1970s. One of many 70s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles", [4] they were called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold 5 million albums.
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".
Les McKeown, the singer of the Scottish '70s band Bay City Rollers, has died at the age of 65. On Thursday, McKeown's family shared the news of his death in a post on social media.
Statues Also Die (French: Les statues meurent aussi) is a 1953 French essay film directed by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet about historical African art and the effects colonialism has had on how it is perceived.