Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Jackie McLean's 1962 album Let Freedom Ring reflected the change in the air of the early '60s both the musical freedoms being explored by the emergent avant-garde movement and the social freedoms sought by the ascendent civil rights movement. This four-song set featuring the alto saxophonist with Walter Davis Jr. On piano, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums melds the bluesy language of hard bop with the bristling energy of The New Thing. McLean's emotive horn wails, shrieks, and soothes as the quartet moves through three striking McLean originals InchMelody For MelonaeInch (dedicated to his daughter), InchReneInch (dedicated to his son), and InchOmegaInch (dedicated to his mother). A plaintive rendition of the Bud Powell ballad InchI'll Keep Loving YouInch rounds out the date.