Jackie McLean - 4, 5, and 6

Label:	Analogue Productions (Prestige)
Genre:	Jazz
Product No.:	CPRJ 7048 SA
UPC:	753088704864
Availability:	Limited Stock
Category:	Hybrid Mono SACD

Also available on:
• 140 / 150 Gram Vinyl Record
• 180 Gram Vinyl Record
Mono

• Description
• Tracks (6)
• Reviews (1)

Hybrid Mono SACD for sale individually and as part of Analogue Productions’ Prestige Mono Series

Mini "old style" gatefold jacket packaging

These SACD jackets feature printed wraps mounted to chipboard shells, producing an authentic, "old school" look and feel. Some people call these "mini LP" jackets.

This LP for Prestige helped establish alto sax giant McLean on the jazz scene. He was joined by trumpeter Donald Byrd (who shines with the altoist on Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation”) and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley (also bopping hard on the tune), in a date solidified by McLean’s rhythm section: Mal Waldron on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Arthur Taylor on drums. McLean also plays ballads, including Waldron’s sublime tune “Abstraction.” Writing in the original notes, Ira Gitler said, ”Jackie McLean is musically coming of age. His playing, out of Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins, has become a personalized, more individual voice in 1956 and he has not lost any of the basic emotion, swinging qualities that help his style live up to the second syllable of his last name so well.”
 

Originally released in 1956
 

Jackie McLean, alto sax

Mal Waldron, piano

Doug Watkins, bass

Art Taylor, drums

Donald Byrd, trumpet

Hank Mobley, tenor saxophone

 

1. Sentimental Journey

2. Why Was I Born?

3. Contour

4. Confirmation

5. When I Fall in Love

6. Abstraction

Customer Reviews (4.00 Stars) 1 person(s) rated this product.

Wonderful recording, occasionally rough players posted on 01/21/2013 4 Stars The sonics of this SACD are extremely good, and as my wife said, it sounds like there's a band in the room with you. The band misses a step or beat or cue, here and there -- I don't think they were fully used to playing with one another. The recording quality is absolutely wonderful, and it is way cool to think that it is mono. This is some straight-up (occasionally rough) straight-ahead jazz. Very real sounding, both in terms of the excellent SACD pressing and the musicians.

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