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The Best of the Pre-Blue Note Jackie Macs, February 6, 2007
This review is from: 4 5 & 6: Rudy Van Gelder Remasters Series (Audio CD)
Before Jackie McLean made some of the great jazz albums of the 1960s for Blue Note (see my reviews for
A Fickle Sonance,
It's Time,
Destination Out!, and
Right Now!), he recorded for the Prestige label to often mixed results. However, "4, 5 and 6" is in my opinion the best of all his pre-Blue Note sessions. Recorded over two dates in July 1956, the album features future Blue Note colleague Donald Byrd joining in on trumpet for the album's two originals "Abstraction" and "Contour" (penned by Kenny Drew and Mal Waldron respectively). Another Blue Noter, tenor-saxophonist Hank Mobley, even makes it a sextet on Charlie Parker's "Confirmation." The remaining three selections are quartet pieces (hence the album's title) with Mal Waldron on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Art Taylor on drums. While not a great album, "4, 5 and 6" does show glimpses of greatness, which would fully come to the surface on the alto-saxophonist's later dates for Blue Note.
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