Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-1.02 looking at it in the

looking at it in the context of her larger body of work

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

drawing on the talents of major horn players such as Thad Jones and Clark Terry

showing just how far he’d travelled

Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-1.02 looking at it in theBlue Note, 1962 Jackie McLeans 1962 album Let Freedom Ring reflected the change in the air of the early 60s: both the musical freedoms being explored by the emergent avant garde movement and the social freedoms sought by the ascendent civil rights movement. This four song set featuring the alto saxophonist with Walter Davis Jr. on piano, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums melds the bluesy language of hard bop with the bristling energy of