At her peak, the singer’s music was capable of great depth, sincerity and emotional intimacy, which she seemingly conjured ...

A look back at 10 great songs recorded by Roberta Flack, with 'Killing Me Softly' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' ...

on American Routes. NS: Les McCann and Eddie Harris on the Gene McDaniels song "Compared to What?” Performed live at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival. Hard to match that. Listener Kathleen ...

Her first single was a protest song. Written by Gene McDaniels, and earlier recorded by Les McCann — the jazz pianist who discovered Flack and brought her to Atlantic Records — “Compared ...

That she could take on songs by writers of hit soulful jazz (“Compared to What” from Gene McDaniels), socially minded Venezuelan poetry (“Angelitos Negros” from Andrés Eloy Blanco ...

My first time hearing Roberta Flack occurred when I was in elementary school via the song “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” a beautiful ballad written by the late Gene McDaniels. As I was still quite ...

Weaving magic from her versions of Gene McDaniels’ ‘Compared To What’ and Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’, the album is full of spellbinding covers of songs that had influenced her ...

Film critic Gene Shalit is 99. Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell is 97. Feminist activist and author Gloria Steinem is 91. Actor-director and AIDS activist Paul Michael Glaser (TV's ``Starsky and Hutch ...

In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by a brother, Gene McDaniel and a sister, Rubi Mae Kelley. He is survived by his wife, Joy Reeves of Dahlonega; daughters, Lisa (Steve) Vaughan of ...

The Kansas State athletic department continues to show its support for basketball coach Jerome Tang. Even after the Wildcats' ...