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Article: Interview

A Conversation With Les McCann

by AAJ Staff
January 2, 2024

Les McCann has a new release on Joel Dorn's 32 Records entitled How's Your Mother?. I had an opportunity to chat with the pianist/vocalist from his home about the release, his humble beginnings in Kentucky, his distaste for the current trends in music, and about the highly successful album with Eddie Harris, Swiss Movement, recorded live ...

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Article: Album Review

Les McCann: How's Your Mother?

Read "How's Your Mother?" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
October 1, 1998

“How's Your Mother?" is a live date from 1967 that has lain in the can from then to now---not because there is anything lacking about it (quite the contrary!) but as a testament to the cornucopia of great music that was lying around everywhere in 1967, so that Trane's Interstellar Space (and around a hundred others) ...

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Article: Album Review

Les McCann: How's Your Mother?

Read "How's Your Mother?" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
September 1, 1998

This intriguing, previously unreleased set captures Les McCann's working trio with bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Frank Severino live at the Village Vanguard on July 16, 1967. It's an exceptionally well recorded fifty-minute set that mixes four group originals with two Cole Porter tunes and two unfortunate pop staples of McCann's ("Goin' Out of My Head," ...