Jackie McLean is an alto saxophonist of historic importance—a link between bebop tradition and free jazz innovation, and one of the most expressive voices ever to play the instrument. Jackie McLean & Co. from 1992 captures him in a quartet setting, playing bebop and post-bop standards with the authority that comes from decades of mastery. His tone is fat and soulful, his phrasing hip and conversational. The interplay with the rhythm section swings hard, and the compositions have the elegance of the bebop tradition. McLean's ability to be both inside and outside the harmonic framework—to acknowledge the tradition while pushing it—makes this essential listening. This is straight-ahead jazz played by someone who helped define what that means, recorded with the warmth that Prestige's reissue program captures so well.

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