Remembering #LesMcCann on his birthday. In 1969, Atlantic released Swiss Movement, an album recorded with saxophonist Eddie Harris and 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 reached the Billboard pop charts. "Compared to What" criticized the Vietnam War. The song was written by Eugene McDaniels years earlier and recorded and released as a ballad by McCann in 1966 on his album, Les McCann Pla

Eddie Harris performing “Cold Duck Time” with Les McCann on piano, Benny Bailey on trumpet, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Donald Dean on drums live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969 #jazzisdead | Jazz Is Dead