Jackie Mclean - Let Freedom Ring
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Artist: Jackie McleanEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Melody For Meloniae
- I'll Keep Loving You
- Rene
- Omega
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Music Review: The Thin Line between Freedom and Chaos
Rating: 5 Stars
This was a very important album for Mr. McLean, as it was his first whole-hearted attempt to come to terms with the "freedom" that was emerging in jazz at the time. However eventhough Jackie admired some of the free jazz players and their music, he was disinclined to totally abandon the bebop (or by this time hardbop) that his mentor and hero Charlie Parker created. Combining aspects of both traditional bop (itself revolutionary for it's time) and more outside free playing would be his challenge during parts of the sixties (see "Destination Out!", "One Step Beyond", "Action", "New and Old Gospel", and particularly Grachan Moncur's "Evolution" to assess how it went). For McLean personally the new freedom of the music invigorated him, and it shows on these albums, as the one thing they all share is the sustained, jagged passion of his playing. Some might call it abrasive, but for me the word to use is most definitely passionate to describe the sound of Jackie's alto, as he emerged from under Parker's tall shadow hovering over the instrument. On this album, and on the track "Omega" in particular, we can see the wisdom of walking the tightrope of structure and chaos, something McLean would do often over the aforementioned series of albums to come. This sonic balancing act, of juggling some sort of structure with the raw emotion that outside playing allows, is exactly the sort of thing John Coltrane did on some of his very best records. However, unlike Coltrane, McLean always comes back down to earth, he regains his tenuous grip of the edge, never falling into the darkness of chaos. Along with Jackie we have the always competent Walter Davis (whose album "Davis Cup" has recently been reissued), who on this album seems to represent Bop's past, and who is an interesting foil for the leader. We also have the amazing Billy Higgins, who after working with Ornette Coleman (among countess others) definitely had a solid understanding of what Jackie was chasing. Really no other drummer was more suited (with the possible exception of Elvin Jones) for giving this album the diversity, not only in tempo, but of feeling and emotion, that "Let Freedom Ring" called for. The end result was a wonderful melding of the "in" and "out", and not unlike Andrew Hill's work, a vision for one possible course jazz might take. "Let Freedom Ring" might , or might not, be the best McLean ever committed to record, but it is a milestone, and for people who appreciate the raw emotion and desperate desire Jackie had to communicate, it will always be a place to come back to and admire.
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