Search - Artist/Band: Jackie McLean

• Name: Jackie McLean
• Birthday: 05/17/1932
• Birth Place: New York, NY
• Died: 03/31/2006
• Decades Active: 1940,1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Hard Bop, Modal Music, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Bop, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Saxophone Jazz, Standards
• Moods: Complex, Earthy, Energetic, Fiery, Freewheeling, Intense, Passionate, Sophisticated, Uncompromising, Ambitious, Boisterous, Confident, Dramatic, Earnest, Exuberant, Literate, Lively, Playful, Provocative, Rambunctious, Rebellious, Rousing, Searching, Sprawling, Stately, Street-Smart, Swaggering, Visceral, Witty, Wry

Title	Release
Complete 1955-1957 Quartet Quintet Sextet Sessions WA	04/02/2007
Jackie McLean & Miles Davis: Complete Studio Sessions	04/02/2007
Complete 1955-1957, Vol. 1 WA	2007
Complete 1955-1957, Vol. 2 WA	2007
Complete 1955-1957, Vol. 3 WA	2007
Jackie McLean/Mal Waldron Original Quartet: Complete Recordings	11/20/2006
Presenting Jackie McLean WA	11/07/2006
The Complete Jubilee Sessions WA	10/23/2006
Prestige Profiles, Vol. 6	10/25/2005
Blue Note Years, Vol. 16	04/27/2004
The Best of Jackie McLean WA	04/27/2004
Nature Boy WA	02/01/2000
Fire and Love	1997
Hat Trick WA	1996
Perception WA	07/27/1994
Rhythm of the Earth	1992
Rites of Passage	1991
Dynasty WA	11/05/1988
New Wine in Old Bottles WA	1978
New York Calling WA	10/30/1974
Antiquity WA	1974
A Ghetto Lullaby	07/18/1973
Ode to Super WA	07/17/1973
Demon's Dance	12/22/1967
'Bout Soul WA	09/08/1967
New and Old Gospel	03/24/1967
Jacknife WA	04/12/1966
Consequence	12/03/1965
Right Now! WA	01/26/1965
Action WA	09/16/1964
It's Time	08/05/1964
Destination Out!	09/20/1963
One Step Beyond WA	04/30/1963
Vertigo WA	1963
Tippin' the Scales WA	09/28/1962
Let Freedom Ring WA	03/19/1962
A Fickle Sonance WA	10/26/1961
Bluesnik [Original LP Tracks]	01/08/1961
Street Singer WA	10/02/1960
Capuchin Swing WA	04/17/1960
Jackie's Bag WA	1960
Swing, Swang, Swingin' WA	10/02/1959
New Soil WA	05/02/1959
Jackie McLean Plays Fat Jazz WA	12/1957
A Long Drink of the Blues WA	08/30/1957
Makin' the Changes WA	08/30/1957
Alto Madness WA	05/03/1957
Jackie McLean and Co.	02/08/1957
Lights Out!	1957
McLean's Scene WA	1957
Strange Blues WA	1957
Jackie's Pal	08/31/1956
4, 5 and 6	07/1956

Jackie McLean has long had his own sound, played slightly sharp and with great intensity; he is recognizable within two notes. McLean was one of the few bop-oriented players of the early '50s who explored free jazz in the '60s, widening his emotional range and drawing from the new music qualities that fit his musical personality.

The son of guitarist John McLean (who played guitar with Tiny Bradshaw), Jackie started on alto when he was 15. As a teenager he was friends with such neighbors as Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins. He made his recording debut with Miles Davis in 1951 and the rest of the decade could be considered his apprenticeship. McLean worked with George Wallington, Charles Mingus, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1956-1958). He also participated on a string of jam session-flavored records for Prestige and New Jazz which, due to the abysmal pay and his developing style, he later disowned. Actually they are not bad but pale in comparison to McLean's classic series of 21 Blue Note albums (1959-1967). On sessions such as One Step Beyond and Destination Out, McLean really stretches and challenges himself; this music is quite original and intense yet logical. McLean also appeared as a sideman on some sessions for Blue Note (most notably with Tina Brooks, acted in the stage play The Connection (1959-1961), and led his own groups on a regular basis. By 1968, however, he was moving into the jazz education field and other than some SteepleChase records from 1972-1974 (including two meetings with his early idol Dexter Gordon) and an outing for RCA (1978-1979), McLean was less active as a player during the '70s. However in the '80s Jackie McLean returned to a more active playing schedule (sometimes with his son René McLean on tenor), recording for Triloka, Antilles, and most recently (with a renewed relationship) with Blue Note -- without losing the intensity and passion of his earlier days. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide