Makin' the Changes

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Makin' the Changes
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1960 [1]
RecordedFebruary 15 & August 30, 1957
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length35:53
Label New Jazz
NJ 8231
Producer Bob Weinstock
Jackie McLean chronology
Jackie McLean & Co.
(1957)
Makin' the Changes
(1960)
A Long Drink of the Blues
(1957)
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Makin' the Changes is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. It was recorded in 1957 for Prestige, but not released until 1960 by the subsidiary label New Jazz as NJ 8231. It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Arthur Phipps and drummer Art Taylor, and three with a sextet featuring trumpeter Webster Young, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Gil Coggins, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Bean and the Boys" (Coleman Hawkins a contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") - 8:33
  2. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) - 7:09
  3. "I Never Knew" (Gus Kahn, Ted Fiorito) - 3:00
  4. "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Dick Gasparre, George Fragos, Jack Baker) - 5:08
  5. "Jackie's Ghost" (Ray Draper) - 5:28
  6. "Chasin' the Bird" (Charlie Parker) - 6:35

Recorded on February 15 (#1, 3-4) & August 30 (#2, 5-6), 1957.

Personnel

Tracks 1, 3-4

Tracks 2, 5-6

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References

  1. Schwann Monthly Guide to Stereo Records, 1965
  2. Allmusic Review
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 978. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.