Alto Madness [Original recording reissued]

Jackie McLean, McLean/Jenkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1957
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000Z5O
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,780 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alto Madness

2. Windy City

3. The Lady Is a Tramp

4. Easy Living

5. Pondering

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for everyone, essential if you love McLean, August 31, 2004

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alto Madness (Audio CD)

Very good session by two great alto sax players Jenkins and McLean. This album is really consistent, very good from the beginning to the end. The tunes are a medium fast blues, an anatoll ("rhythmn" changes) a couple of standards, a medium up tempo (Tramp) and a very well played ballad, "Easy Living" and last an original medium fast bop tune. This album is very famous so I was expecting it to be one of the greatest of the period (1957). I think it's really a great collection of tunes however it's not one of those absolutly essential record (five stars) .. and not one of those that give me the greatest emotions actually. Probably due to the fact that the guys are not my favourite alto players even if I like them very much. Anyway the playing is aggressive, inspired and consistent. A great album, four full stars. If you love McLean's harsh sound and fragmented phrases chances are that you'll absolutly love this album. I prefer "Phil & Quill" for example (another two altos album from the same 1957) because I love Woods much more than McLean (the two leaders of the two records). Woods is a pure parkerian which is my kind of player. McLean is a different less flashy, less technical and more arsh, aggressive. My taste.