Young horn player to play Szechuan Tokyo Oct 6, 2008
"The people at the Collective have been like family to me," says J.R., who had the opportunity to play in groups led by the late Jackie McLean and his son, Rene. "Jackie was a great mentor, absolutely the nicest guy you could ever meet in your life," says LaRosa. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Weekend Calendar Sep 4, 2008
The Jackie McLean Institute presents the Hartt School All-Stars honoring the legacy of founder Art Fine, sailing from state pier on the Connecticut River at Haddam. The cruise goes from Haddam to Long Island Sound and back, sailing at noon. (Middletown Press, CT)
Jazz star createsmusic to make ends meet May 31, 2008
1961 Grant Green, Feelin' the Spirit 1962 Grant Green, First Session 1961 Hank Mobley, Straight, No Filter 1963 Herbie Hancock, Takin' Off 1962 Horace Parlan, Happy Frame of Mind 1963 Jackie McLean, Fickle Sonance 1961 Jackie McLean, Jackie McLean Quintet 1962 Jackie McLean, Tippin' the Scales 1962 Jackie McLean, Vertigo 1963 Joe Henderson, Page One 1963 Kenny Dorham, Arrival of Kenny Dorham... (MSNBC -- Music)
The Jazz Workout Apr 10, 2008
Mobley and the musicians he recorded with most often, including other first-rate musicians like Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd and Kenny Dorham, were contemporaries of the better-known and much more influential Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. What's the place of musicians like Mobley in the musical history of their era. (Forbes -- Markets)
Picks of the week Sep 15, 2007
Wednesday: Acclaimed mainstream saxophonist Jimmy Greene, a Jackie McLean prot g , brings his band to Scullers. Thursday: Grammy-winning trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney is at Scullers. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Konitz present at birth of cool jazz, and hot to this day Aug 4, 2007
Davis "defended me when guys criticized him hiring me for the nonet. The black guys thought he should have a black alto player, like Sonny Stitt or Jackie McLean. But he wanted my sound for the ensemble.". Here's how Davis recalls the time in his 1989 autobiography, "Miles": "See, this whole idea started out just as an experiment, a collaborative experiment. Then a lot of black musicians came down on my case about their not having work, and here I was hiring white guys in my band. So I just told... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jazzing Up A City Street May 20, 2007
Jazzing Up A City Street `Jackie McLean Way' Honors Late Great ... But there were only smiles and jazz at one street corner, as the city renamed a section of Woodland Street in honor of alto saxophone great Jackie McLean, one of the city's most accomplished and devoted sons, who died last year ... The block of Woodland running alongside the Artists Collective, the cultural institution McLean and his wife, Dollie, founded more than 30 years ago, is now known as "Jackie McLean Way" - with the "J"... (FOX61, CT)
Guide: Summer Jazz Season May 17, 2007
of the late Hartford jazz great, Jackie McLean. The festival which prides itself on catering to jazz lovers of every taste from smooth jazz to modern, rings down the curtain July 22 with the bluesy, stomping Kansas City stylings of vocalist Kevin Mahogany and the Kansas City Review. (CTNow.com)
Freddie Redd Quartet Feb 21, 2007
Redd's reading of songs from "The Connection" -- with Donald Harrison standing in for his original foil, the late Jackie McLean -- was just as vivid, albeit emanating from the opposite end of the emotional spectrum. Alternating between Technicolor pieces suggesting a dream-state sense of suspended animation and breathless runs evoking the tension and release of an opiate expedition, Redd played with an engaging delicacy -- matched in the soft-spoken onstage interview he granted between sets. (Variety)
Wear your heart on your sleeves Jan 29, 2007
I found some absolute gems that I had all but forgotten about: that beautifully evocative Jackie McLean cover for his classic 'Bout Soul album on the legendary Blue Note label; that wonderfully grotesque Neon Park painting on the front of Weasels Ripped My Flesh by the Mothers of Invention; that series of still mysterious Modernist masterpieces that Peter Saville created for Factory records. It felt at times as if I were handling an art collection, as well as a repository of memories. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Delfeayo Marsalis: Minions Dominion Jan 3, 2007
"Brer Rabbit" is the Blue Note doppelganger, where Delfeayo's magisterial blowing recalls J.J. Johnson while alto saxophonist Donald Harrison spray-paints notes like Jackie McLean and pianist Mulgrew Miller mines a funky groove Bobby Timmons would recognize, supple bop solo included. One of five Delfeayo compositions, "Lone Warrior" was written for Jones, and from his portentous snare-drum murmuring on the Trane-like intro to his sharp-eared shepherding of Harrison's and Delfeayo's extended... (City Pages)
