The Jackie McLean Quintet
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The Jackie McLean Quintet
Lights Out!
CD $11.98 $8.98
RELEASE DATE: 27 Jan 1956
OJCCD-426-2
GENRE: JAZZ
A perpetual favorite among Jackie McLean’s earlier recordings, Lights Out! finds the hard-swinging young alto saxophonist in 1956 still very much under the wing of Charlie Parker, who had died less than a year earlier. Yet McLean was beginning to find ways out of the seductive artistic security of Bird imitations. For one thing, he was experimenting with tonal variations. For another, he was working with Charles Mingus, and Mingus’s genius as a leader included forcing mus… MORE
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