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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music 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 manager confirmed. No cause of death was announced, although he had been hospitalized last week after contracting pneumonia; he was 88. The news was first reported by NBC Bay Area.
Also an accomplished singer, McCann fused jazz and R&B in his work and provided a bedrock for many songs in the early years of hip-hop, including songs by the Notorious B.I.G. (“10 Crack Commandments”), A Tribe Called Quest (“After Hours”), Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre (“The Next Episode”), Pete Rock and C.L.
Smooth, Warren G., Slick Rick and many others. McCann was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1935 and grew up in a musical family. He played tuba and drums in his school’s marching band and was largely self-taught as a pianist; he said he’d only received a few weeks of lessons as a child.
During a stint in the U.S. Navy, he won a singing contest that led to a 1956 appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” at the time the most popular variety show on television. After being discharged, he moved to Los Angeles and formed a trio in Los Angeles, declining an invitation to join the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.
He signed with the Pacific Jazz label and first rose to fame with his 1960 albums “Les McCann Plays the Truth” and “The Shout,” which established his, rollicking, soulful playing. During this prolific era he worked primarily with his trio but also Ben Webster, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Pass, the Jazz Crusaders and others. He signed with Atlantic in 1968 and released his cover of Gene McDaniel’s “Compared to What,” a collaboration
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Snoop Dogg‘s daughter has been hospitalized following a very serious health scare.
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Snoop Dogg‘s daughter, the singer Cori Broadus, has suffered a “severe stroke” aged 24.The singer, who performs under the name CHOC, shared a photo on Instagram this week of herself lying in a hospital bed.She wrote: “I had a severe stroke this am. I started breaking down crying when they told me.”In a follow-up post on her Instagram Stories, she added: “Like I’m only 24.
Snoop Dogg’s 24-year-old daughter Cori Broadus is opening up about her recent health struggles. Broadus revealed that she suffered a “severe” stroke on Thursday morning, and while she didn’t share details about the cause of the health scare, she has been open about her journey, as she was diagnosed with Lupus at the age of 6.CELINE DION FACES TRAGIC DEATH OF HER NIECEHOW CHRISTINA AGUILERA ACHIEVED HER WEIGHT LOSS TRANSFORMATIONIS IT GOOD TO SLEEP 14 HOURS LIKE DAKOTA JOHNSON?“I had a severe stroke this a.m. I started breaking down crying when they told me,” she wrote on Instagram Stories.
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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music FOMO is such a strong human emotion that it defies logic, especially when looking at photos or video from Studio 54 or a Beatles concert or Truman Capote’s Black-and-White Ball… or, as “Indie/Seen,” veteran photographer Piper Ferguson’s new photo book demonstrates, the indie-rock scene of the early ‘00s. LCD Soundsystem, Coachella 2016 (Photo: Piper Ferguson) It’s a time capsule of the era dominated by the Strokes, the Killers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the White Stripes, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, the Rapture and many now-obscure acts from that scene, and even though the photos were taken 20-odd years ago, the artists are presented so vividly that it’s hard not to wish you were there.
Drake has shared a photo of a blunt that was gifted to him by Snoop Dogg while reflecting on 2023.To wrap up 2023, the ‘Marvin’s Room’ rapper took to his official Instagram to share a handful of photos that depict memorable moments and highlights of the year. He also featured a few throwbacks including a photo of him at a Hooters restaurant.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music N.W.A, Laurie Anderson, Gladys Knight, Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette and the Clark Sisters will receive 2024 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Awards during this year’s Special Merit Awards ceremony, the Academy announced today. Also being honored are longtime Linda Ronstadt/ James Taylor producer/manager Peter Asher, hip-hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc and veteran attorney (and longtime Academy executive) Joel Katz with Trustees Award recipients; Tom Kobayashi and Tom Scott with Technical Grammy Awards; and “Refugee,” written by K’naan, Steve McEwan, and Gerald Eaton (a.k.a.
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Snoop Dogg has signed up to provide commentary on the TV coverage of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.News that the rapper will be reporting for the US coverage was announced over the weekend (December 31), during the halftime of Sunday Night Football’s coverage of the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers.According to the update, Snoop will be providing coverage for the Olympics primetime show in the US – giving insight into what’s happening at the event in Paris. It will also see him attend the events, speak to the athletes and their families, and explore iconic landmarks across the French capital.This year’s instalment will kick off on July 26, and his commentary will be available on NBC and Peacock.“I grew up watching the Olympics and am thrilled to see the incredible athletes bring their A-game to Paris.
Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, has died aged 88.He passed away last Friday (December 29) at a hospital in LA and although his cause of death has not been disclosed, his manager Alan Abrahams told NBC News McCann developed pneumonia a week ago.McCann, who is best remembered for 1967 protest song ‘Compared To What’, alongside saxophonist Eddie Harris, was also famous for being sampled by over 300 artists including Warren G., Slick Rick, Cypress Hill, and Nas.Some of his most famous samples include Notorious B.I.G.’s ’10 Crack Commandments’, which uses McCann’s composition ‘Vallarta’, Snoop Dogg and Dr.