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EDITORS’ NOTES
Born in Harlem in 1931, Jackie McLean was thrust into the heart of the modern jazz world with neighbours including Bud Powell and Sonny Rollins. He soon became a protégé of Powell, and later played with Rollins and Kenny Drew in a high school band. Like many players of his generation, he worshipped Charlie Parker, and his influence can be heard in McLean's early recordings with Miles Davis and George Wallington. By the end of the ‘50s, having recorded and performed with Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Charles Mingus, McLean had developed a sound that was all his own.



EDITORS’ NOTES Alto-sax heavyweight Jackie McLean was known as a musical firebrand, but he had his reflective side too. His keening, lyrical lines paint delicate-yet-indelible colors across the canvas of "For Hofsa," and when McLean sinks his teeth into a jazz standard like "I Cover the Waterfront," he gracefully glides across the classic chord changes with the unhurried authority of a man who's mastered the bop book. DITORS’ NOTES McLean was a man of many musical personalities, especially in his work as a sideman. You might find the alto-sax sultan summoning vibrant New Thing vibes on Grachan Moncur III's "The Coaster," blowing his bluesy way to hard-bop glory with Lee Morgan on the hard-swinging "Midtown Blues," or leaning into some straight-ahead bebop on Dizzy Gillespie's frenetic "Oo Pa Pa Da."