LA jazz pianist and 'Compared to What' singer Les McCann dies at 88
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Jan 02, 2024
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — 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 a Los Angeles-area hospital, according to his longtime manager and producer Alan Abrahams.
McCann, 88, had been living in a Van Nuys nursing facility and was hospitalized with pneumonia, said Abrahams, who declined to identify the hospital. McCann had been a longtime
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