Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean (1931-2006) was an American alto saxophonist, born in Harlem, New York. In the 1950s he played with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and from the end of the decade he recorded a long run of albums as leader for Blue Note, working with Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and Ornette Coleman. From 1968 he also taught in Hartford, Connecticut, where he built a jazz programme. McLean appears on Miles Davis's Dig (recorded 1951) and on Mingus's Pithecanthropus Erectus.