Jackie's Bag

by Jackie McLean

Jackie's Bag cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1961
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:02:25
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This Blue Note release compiles tracks from two distinct sextet sessions recorded in 1959 and 1960. The album features early career appearances by Blue Mitchell and Tina Brooks, illustrating Jackie McLean's transition from traditional bebop toward more expansive, modal-oriented hard bop compositions.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Quadrangle (4:42)
  2. Blues Inn (9:05)
  3. Fidel (7:08)
  4. Appointment In Ghana (6:57)
  5. A Ballad For Doll (3:16)
  6. Isle Of Java (7:27)
  7. Street Singer (10:15)
  8. Melonae's Dance (6:46)
  9. Medina (6:46)

Credits

  • Jackie McLean - primary artist, alto saxophone, written-by
  • Paul Chambers - bass
  • Reid Miles - design [cover]
  • "Philly" Joe Jones - drums
  • Art Taylor - drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder - lacquer cut by, recorded by
  • Kenny Drew - piano
  • Sonny Clark - piano
  • Alfred Lion - producer
  • Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone, written-by
  • Blue Mitchell - trumpet
  • Donald Byrd - trumpet

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