Jackie McLean

alto saxophone · 1931–2006 · New York (Harlem)

Alto saxophonist coming out of hard bop, he recorded for Blue Note from 1959 to 1967 and then opened up to modal jazz and free jazz. Teaching at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford from 1968, he co-founded the Artists Collective in 1970.

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