The Jackie McLean Quintet - Lights Out! mp3 album

Tracklist

1	Lights Out
2	Up
3	Lorraine
4	A Foggy Day
5	Kerplunk
6	Inding

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Analogue Productions
• Copyright (c) – Analogue Productions
• Licensed From – Concord Music Group
• Mastered At – Cohearent Audio
• Pressed By – Arvato

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean
• Bass – Doug Watkins
• Drums – Arthur Taylor*
• Mastered By – Kevin Gray
• Piano – Elmo Hope
• Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
• Supervised By – Bob Weinstock
• Trumpet – Donald Byrd

Notes

Altoist Jackie McLean’s second session as a leader is reissued on this SACD. The music that he makes with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Elmo Hope, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Art Taylor is essentially hard bop with fairly simple (or in some cases nonexistent) melody statements preceding two romps through the “I Got Rhythm” chord changes, a pair of blues, a thinly disguised “Embraceable You” and a straightforward version of “A Foggy Day”. Enjoyable if not really essential music from the up-and-coming altoist.

A perpetual favorite among Jackie McLean’s earlier recordings, Lights Out finds the hard-swinging young alto saxophonist in 1956 still very much under the wing of Charlie Parker, who had died less than a year earlier. Yet McLean was beginning to find ways out of the seductive artistic security of Bird imitations. For one thing, he was experimenting with tonal variations. For another, he was working with Charles Mingus, and Mingus’s genius as a leader included forcing musicians to look deeply into their most cherished stylistic practices. The McLean of Lights Out is the hot young bebopper with a slightly acid edge to his sound and a solid blues foundation under everything he played. McLean and trumpeter Donald Byrd occasionally engage in the “pecking” technique of mutual improvisation they developed as members of the George Wallington Quintet.

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Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
LP 7035, PRLP 7035	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope - Lights Out! ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Prestige, Prestige	LP 7035, PRLP 7035	US	1956
OJC-426, P-7035	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope - Lights Out! ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE)	Original Jazz Classics, Prestige	OJC-426, P-7035	US	1990
OJCCD-426-2	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope - Lights Out! ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Original Jazz Classics	OJCCD-426-2	Europe	1990
32-041	Jackie McLean	Lights Out ‎(LP, Album)	Esquire	32-041	UK	1957
none	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope	The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope - Lights Out! ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE, TP)	Prestige	none	US	Unknown