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Les McCann (born September 23, 1935, Lexington, Kentucky) is a soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul. Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 68th largest in the United States. Soul jazz was a development of Hard bop which incorporated strong influences from Blues, Gospel and Rhythm and blues in music for small The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers

In 1969, Atlantic Records released Swiss Movement, a recording of McCann with regular collaborator and saxophonist Eddie Harris and guest trumpeter Benny Bailey at that year's Montreux Jazz Festival. Atlantic Records ( Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American Record label best known for its many recordings of Rhythm & blues, Rock The Swiss Movement is a live album recorded on June 21 1969 at The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland Eddie Harris (b Chicago, October 20 1934; died November 5, 1996) was best known for playing Tenor saxophone, though Benny Bailey (born Ernest Harold Bailey 13 August, 1925 in Cleveland Ohio &ndash 14 April, 2005 in Amsterdam) was an The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music Festival in Switzerland, Europe's most prestigious The album contained the song "Compared To What," and both the album and the single were huge Billboard pop chart successes. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry "Compared To What" featured political criticism of the Vietnam War:

The President, he's got his war,
Folks don't know just what it's for. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Nobody gives us rhyme or reason,
Have one doubt, they call it treason.

The song was not actually written by McCann; fellow Atlantic composer/artist Eugene McDaniels wrote it years earlier. Gene McDaniels (born Eugene Booker McDaniels, February 12 1935, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American Singer "Compared To What" was initially recorded and released by soul vocalist Roberta Flack. Roberta Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American Singer-songwriter and Musician who is notable in the areas of Jazz Her version appeared as the opening track on her debut recording, First Take (1969). First Take is the debut album by the soul singer Roberta Flack.

After the success of Swiss Movement, McCann — primarily a piano player — began to emphasize his rough-hewn vocals more. He became an innovator in the soul jazz style, merging jazz with funk, soul and world rhythms; much of his early 1970s music prefigures the great Stevie Wonder albums of the decade. Soul jazz was a development of Hard bop which incorporated strong influences from Blues, Gospel and Rhythm and blues in music for small Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13 1950 name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an He was among the first jazz musicians to include electric piano, clavinet, and synthesizer in his music.

In 1971, he and Harris were part of a group of soul, R&B, and rock performers — including Wilson Pickett, The Staple Singers, Santana, and Ike & Tina Turner — who flew to Accra, Ghana for a historic 14-hour concert before more than 100,000 Ghanaians. Wilson Pickett ( March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B / Rock and Roll and soul The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group For the Costa Rican football player see Carlos Santana (footballer; for the Mexican academic see Carlos Santana Morales. Ike & Tina Turner were an American Rock & roll and soul duo made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner Accra is the capital, and most populous city of Ghana. The city also doubles as the capital of the Greater The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast to the west Burkina Faso to the north Togo to the The March 6 concert was recorded for the documentary film Soul To Soul. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Soul To Soul was a concert held in Accra, Ghana on March 6, 1971 by an array of American R&B, Soul, In 2004 the movie was released on DVD with an accompanying soundtrack album. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "

A stroke in the mid 1990s sidelined McCann for a while, but in 2002 he released a new album, Pump it Up.

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