Les McCann Made It Real
If not beyond compare, the pianist and singer truly was one of a kind.
When Les McCann died last Friday, at the wryly appropriate age of 88, a particular window of experience closed on the American musical scene. As was justly noted in the initial round of coverage, including a fine NY Times obituary by Andrey Henkin, McCann was “an early progenit…
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