4, 5 and 6
by Jackie McLean
- Type: Album
- Released: 1956
- Label: Prestige
- Country: United States
- Length: 33:43
- Community rating: 4.06/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Donald Byrd, Mal Waldron, Art Taylor, Paul Chambers
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A quintessential document of mid-50s New York hard bop. The album showcases Jackie McLean's uncompromising style鈥攕harp, intense, and full of raw, blues-inflected emotion鈥攁longside a lineup of other young masters.
Genres
Descriptors: saxophone, improvisation, ensemble, bluesy, dynamic
Tracklist
- Sentimental Journey (9:57)
- Why Was I Born? (5:14)
- Contour (5:00)
- When I Fall in Love (5:32)
- Abstraction (8:00)
Credits
- Jackie McLean - primary artist, alto saxophone
- Doug Watkins - bass
- Bob Weinstock - cover, supervised by
- Tom Hannan - cover
- Art Taylor - drums
- Rudy Van Gelder - lacquer cut by, recorded by
- Ira Gitler - liner notes
- Mal Waldron - piano, written-by
- Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
- Donald Byrd - trumpet
- Ben Homer - written-by
- Bud Green - written-by
- Les Brown - written-by
- Hammerstein-Kern - written-by
- Kenny Drew - written-by
- Charlie Parker - written-by
- Edward Heyman - written-by
- Victor Young - written-by