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.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. The album contained the song "Compared To What," and both the album and the single were huge
Billboard pop chart successes. "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.Nobody gives us rhyme or reason, Have one doubt, they call it treason.
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