Jackie McLean Jackie's Pal (Mono)

200g Mono Vinyl LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Kevin Gray & Cut from the Original Mono 100% Analog Master Tapes!
Jackie McLean was already an established prestige artist when he hired trumpeter Bill Hardman for a recording in 1956. Together with Mal Waldron on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, "Jackie's Pal" was created. Hardman doesn't sound as powerful here as he does on his later collaborations with The Messengers, but his style is already clearly recognizable.
The perennially underrated Bill Hardman (1932-'90) was one of the unsung trumpet heroes of the modern era. His raw sound and tense, "running" attack were featured in three separate editions of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the first and most memorable of which found him sharing the front line with Jackie McLean and Johnny Griffin. McLean, who was already an established Prestige artist, gave Hardman the spotlight on this 1956 blowing date, recorded with a blue-ribbon rhythm section after the pair left Charles Mingus's workshop and before they joined Blakey.

Features:

• 200g Vinyl
• Mono
• Cut from the Analogue Masters by Kevin Gray
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Deluxe High-Gloss Tip-On Album Jacket

Musicians:

• Jackie McLean, alto saxophone
• Bill Hardman, trumpet
• Paul Chambers, bass
• Mal Waldron, piano
• Philly Joe Jones, drums

Selections:

Side A
1. Sweet Doll
2. Just For Marty
3. Dee's dilemma
Side B
1. Sublues
2. Steeplechase
3. It Could Happen To You

Originally released in 1956.