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Jackie McLean & The MacBand: Fire & Love

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 1998

After not doing nearly enough recording in the 1980s, Jackie McLean has been quite active in the 1990s--first on Triloka, then Antilles and now Blue Note with the excellent Fire & Love. The Macband is a hard-driving septet that unites the bracing and distinctive altoist with his tenor-playing son Rene McLean, trumpeter Raymond Williams, trombonist Steve ...

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One Step Beyond

By Jackie McLean

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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Destination...Out!

By Jackie McLean

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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New and Old Gospel

By Jackie McLean

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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Jackie McLean: New and Old Gospel

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1997

After Jackie Mac praised Ornette to the skies for a few years, pronounced him his new inspiration, and started tending toward the free thing on his own albums, their fateful meeting finally occured in 1967: Jackie McLean and Ornette Coleman together, with Lamont Johnson on piano, Scott Holt on bass, and the redoubtable Billy Higgins from ...

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Jackie McLean: One Step Beyond

by Robert Spencer
February 1, 1997

One Step Beyond is the first of three albums Jackie McLean made with Grachan Moncur III on trombone and Bobby Hutcherson on vibes (also Eddie Khan on bass and Tony Williams on drums). These three (the other two are Destination...Out! and Moncur’s Evolution ) are the crowning achievement of McLean’s Ornette Coleman-inspired pianoless “outside work" of ...

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Jackie McLean: Destination...Out!

by Robert Spencer
February 1, 1997

Is this a Jackie McLean album the way Somethin’ Else is a Cannonball Adderley album? On the latter, Cannon’s “sideman" Miles Davis seems to be calling the shots. On Destination...Out!, trombonist Grachan Moncur III wrote three of the four tracks and is heard first after the head on the opening number. So was Jackie giving his ...

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