Jackie McLean - Jackie's Pal (Hybrid SACD, Mono)
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Jackie McLean, alto saxophone [click here to see more products featuring Jackie McLean]
Paul Chambers, bass [click here to see more products featuring Paul Chambers]
Philly Joe Jones, drums [click here to see more products featuring Philly Joe Jones]
Bill Hardman, trumpet
1 Hybrid SACD
Limited edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Mono
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Prestige
Recorded 31 August 1956 in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey by Rudy Van Gelder
Produced by Bob Weinstock
Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Originally released in 1956
Reissued in 2022
Tracks:
- Sweet Doll
- Just For Marty
- Dee's Dilemma
- Sublues
- Steeplechase
- It Could Happen To You
Reviews :
« Here was Bill Hardman, who he introduced into a quintet with Mal Waldron (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). Hardman's hot breaking tone sounds a bit less forceful than on his (soon-to-be) later work with The Messengers, but it was already identifiable...Chambers has some exciting bowed spots, Mal Waldron was a bit bland and while Jones' drumming fills the role, it missed the push Art Taylor's drumming seemed to invite so often with McLean. » AllMusic Review by Bob Rusch
The perennially underrated Bill Hardman (1932-90) was one of the unsung trumpet heroes of the modern era. His raw sound and tense, "running" attack were featured in three separate editions of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the first and most memorable of which found him sharing the front line with Jackie McLean and Johnny Griffin. McLean, who was already an established Prestige artist, gave Hardman the spotlight on this 1956 blowing date, recorded with a blue-ribbon rhythm section after the pair left Charles Mingus’s workshop and before they joined Blakey.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 , Discogs : 4.43 / 5