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04-02-2006, 11:31 AM
| | | | RIP: Jackie McLean
Bird's prodigy, age 74, died March 31 in New Haven CT......another great loss to the jazz world....
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04-02-2006, 01:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Ahh, crap.... one of the greats. I remember seeing him on one of those All-Star type shows, and he just lit the place up.
Let's all remember to play "Little Melonae" at least once this week. |
04-02-2006, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bloomington, Indiana | | | RIP Great musician and teacher. He will be missed. |
04-03-2006, 07:14 AM
| | Inadvertent Microtonalist | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | "[W]hen you ask who is the real Jackie McLean, I have to say I'm a struggling saxophone player - a player who's struggling to play the instrument to the highest level that I think I was meant to play." -- Interview with The Hartford Courant, 2000
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04-03-2006, 08:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | I remember a pretty wonderful show at the Vanguard a number of years back with his son Rene in the front line. Seeing and hearing them together was joy-making.
A drummer I play with from time to time, Rudy Lawless, grew up with Jackie. He has a great story of how him and his buddies used to throw a stickball ball up near the window of Jackie's family's apartment to get him to stop practicing and come down and play ball with them.
Time passes and we lose so much...
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04-03-2006, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Chicago, IL | | | What a loss for the jazz world. But especially, what a loss for Hartford. Jackie did so much to promote jazz among young people. Hopefully his educational initiatives will live on for decades to come, but he will be sorely missed.
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04-07-2006, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | Just heard about this today. Jackie was one of my all-time favorite players. My phonograph needle wore right through my Dig LP and came out the other side. Jackie's music was formative for me. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua A drummer I play with from time to time, Rudy Lawless, grew up with Jackie. | Black, late 70's? I worked with him ages ago.
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04-07-2006, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Yeah, that's Rudy. He's on that Burt Eckoff CD that I play on some of the cuts.
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04-07-2006, 05:26 PM
| | | | R.I.P Jackie. In Ken Burn's series "Jazz" I thought the interviews with Jackie were some of the best in the whole series. |
04-08-2006, 11:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Australia | | | RIP Jackie. |
04-09-2006, 12:43 PM
| | | | Rest in peace
For those in the NJ area, WBGO 88.3 FM has been doing lots of Jackie McLean tribute hours where they'll play a whole bunch of tracks that he played on. |
04-10-2006, 01:04 PM
| | | | I just learned about it today - I've been a fan of his playing ever since I heard him on the album "Cool Struttin" by Sonny Clark, a few years ago.
RIP |
04-12-2006, 05:27 PM
| | | | In the days of mini-cassette phone message systems, I used to "make" callers listen to that break on "I Hear a Rhapsody" or even a few from "Pithecanthropus..." with J.R.
Jackie per sempre. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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