TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Jackie Mclean
Jackie Mclean
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2380
Jackie Mclean Album Rankings
1
Jackie McLean had always been a highly emotional soloist, so it makes sense that he was one of the first hard bop veterans to find a new voice in the burning intensity of jazz's emerging avant-garde.
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2
In 1963, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was well aware ofJohn ColtraneandOrnette Coleman.
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3
LikeEric Dolphybefore him, Jackie McLean sought to create a kind of vanguard "chamber jazz" that still had the blues feel and -- occasionally -- the groove of hard bop, though with rounded, moodier ed
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4
New Soilwasn't the first session Jackie McLean recorded for Blue Note, but it was the first one released, and as the title suggests, the first glimmerings of McLean's desire to push beyond the limits
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5
Jackie's Bagis split between two different recording sessions: the first, from January 1959, was the first session Jackie McLean ever led for Blue Note, and the second was a sextet date from September
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6
'Bout Souldoes not mean the same thing as soul-jazz, as the opening track "Soul" makes abundantly clear.
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7
This is one of the most accessible of altoist Jackie McLean's Blue Note sessions, for the six songs, which have been augmented on the CD reissue by "new" alternate versions of "Goin' Way Blues" and "T
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8
The Rhythm & Blues Foundation has been taking action to rectify the generations of neglect and ill-treatment endured by the pioneers of the blues and R&B.
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9
One of Jackie McLean's earliest Blue Notes,Swing, Swang, Swingin'parts company with the vast majority of his output for the label by concentrating chiefly on standards (only one of the seven tunes is
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10
This CD reissue begins with what is titled "Take 1" of "A Long Drink of the Blues.
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11
...#8706;...#8706;...#8706;...#8706;...#8706; (Blue Note) £8.99 This set didn't remain in the catalogues long after Blue Note first issued it in 1968 - oddly, since the pairing of free-jazz sax
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12
Demon's Dancewas Jackie McLean's final album for Blue Note, closing out an amazing streak of creativity that's among the more underappreciated in jazz history.
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13
The Kiss army is going to mutiny when they hear "I Was Made for Lovin' You," the disco-inflected leadoff track on the Masked Marvels' latest album.
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14
The music on this CD is dedicated to the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa.
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15
This is a well-rounded CD reissue that brings back altoist Jackie McLean's third recording as a leader.
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16
Altoist Jackie McLean tends to downgrade his Prestige recordings due to the low pay, the little prior preparation and the jam session feel of the music.
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19
Veteran altoist Jackie McLean was not familiar with pianist Junko Onishi's playing until shortly before recording this quartet CD (which also includes bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Lewis Nash), but
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26
This unusual project matches alto saxophonist Jackie McLean (also heard on flute, percussion, and a little bit of piano) and drummer/percussionist Michael Carvin in a set of duets.
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27
This 1980 recording released for the first time -- "Formidable" from a 1959 session and five numbers from a 1963 McLean set.
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30
Life is full of surprises. Back in the late '50s, one of those surprises was Jackie McLean .
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37
Although he came somewhat belatedly to free and modal playing, Jackie McLean remained at heart a bebopper. As a teenager, he studied with Bud Powell and later befriended Charlie Parker.
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42
This recording features the altoist in two different settings.
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45
The last of the Jackie McLean Prestige sessions, this CD reissue has material from two different sets, but fortunately, the music is on a higher level than one might expect of "leftovers.
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47
Recorded two years after his 1963 creative breakthrough on Destination Out!, Right Now is the full articulation of Jackie McLean's new integrational language of hard bop and outside improvisational m
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