The alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was born in New York May 17, 1931 and died March 31, 2006. We want to remember him here in his last exibition in Italy at Umbria Jazz 2004, with a quintet including his son René, a good hard bop tenor saxophonist, Alan Palmer: piano, Nat Reeves: bass, Eric McPherson: drums.
In the first two videos they play the classic standard of Thelonious Monk 'Round Midnight.
In the first two videos they play the classic standard of Thelonious Monk 'Round Midnight.
In the following two we can listen to a composition of Jackie McLean The Rhythm of the Earth
