Artist: Jackie McLean
American jazz alto saxophonistBorn May 17, 1931 in New York City, New York, USADied March 31, 2006 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA (aged 74)Father John McLean (died 1939) was a guitarist with Tiny Bradshaw. Initially a bop orientated musician in the 1950s, Jackie McLean developed a freer approach in the 1960s influenced by Ornette Coleman. With Freddie Redd, he appeared in the Jack Gelber play "The Connection" at the Living Theatre, an off-Broadway venue, and in the 1961 film version directed by Shirley Clarke. After his Blue Note contract was terminated, McLean spent much of the 1970s and 1980s as a music educator, before reviving his performing career in the 1990s.
