Jackie McLean

American jazz alto saxophonist
Born May 17, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA
Died March 31, 2006 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA (aged 74)
Father John McLean (died 1939) was a guitarist with Tiny Bradshaw. Initially a bop orientated musician in the 1950s, Jackie McLean developed a freer approach in the 1960s influenced by Ornette Coleman. With Freddie Redd, he appeared in the Jack Gelber play "The Connection" at the Living Theatre, an off-Broadway venue, and in the 1961 film version directed by Shirley Clarke. After his Blue Note contract was terminated, McLean spent much of the 1970s and 1980s as a music educator, before reviving his performing career in the 1990s.