Jackie McLean - Jacknife (Blue Note Tone Poet Edition) - VINYL LP

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's 1960s output ran the gamut from hard bop to the avant-garde with his 1964 post-bop dates It's Time! And Action splitting the difference. Trumpeter Charles Tolliver had appeared alongside McLean in the horn frontline on It's Time! And returned once again for Action the next month, with McLean opting for Bobby Hutcherson's vibraphone in place of piano, as well as Cecil McBee on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. The albums leaps out of the gate with McLean's searing title track followed by two pensive Tolliver originals InchPlightInch and InchWrong Handle.Inch On a highly original version of the standard InchI Hear a RhapsodyInch the melody is answered by discordant interjections from the horns before the album comes to a close with McLean's grooving minor key piece InchHootnan.Inch Album Tracks 1. Action 2. Plight 1. Hootnan 2. I Hear a Rhapsody 3. Wrong Handle

... Antiquity, an invigorating series of duets... (Gary Giddins, Village Voice)... highly enjoyable... (Cadence)... in a way, there are more music here than many releases with four or five participants... (Jørgen Frigård, Politiken)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean had the blues on his mind when he went into the Van Gelder Studio in 1961 to record his hard bop masterpiece Bluesnik with a blazing quintet featuring Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Kenny Drew (piano), Doug Watkins (bass), and Pete La Roca (drums). The 6-song set of bluesy originals brims with immediacy and vibrancy. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.