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  • Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962)

    * Jackie McLean — alto saxophone * Walter Davis, Jr. — piano * Herbie Lewis — bass *

  • Donald Byrd: the Hardbop Years

    After 25-year-old trumpet great Clifford Brown died unexpectedly in a 1956 automobile accident, some

  • VA - Afro Blue - Explore the Roots and Rhythms of Jazz (1993)

    01. Dianne Reeves - Afro Blue 02. Don Pullen - Capoeira 03. Horace Parlan - Home is Africa 04.

  • Jazz Recordings That Are Out Of Print But Shouldn't Be, Part 2

    Monty Alexander/Ray Brown/Herb Ellis - Overseas Special Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings Chico Fr

  • Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers: Class of ‘57

    Drummer Art Blakey led the Jazz Messengers, one of jazz history's most noted and longest-running col

    • Biography Jackie McLean

    Jackie McLean
    John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean (May 17 1931 – March 31 2006; some sources erroneously give 1932 as his year of birth) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City. Career His father, John Sr., who died in 1939, played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra. After his father's death, his musical education was continued by his godfather, by his stepfather, who owned a record store, and by several noted teachers. He also received informal tutoring from neighbours Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and Charlie Parker. During high school he played in a band with Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Andy Kirk Jr. (the tenor saxophonist son of Andy Kirk). He recorded with Miles Davis, on Davis's Dig album, when he was 19 years old. Rollins played on the same album. As a young man McLean also recorded with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus, and George Wallington, and as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz

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