Bluesnik
Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean appreciates how blues is the bone marrow of jazz. On a blues date in 1961 he exhibits creative spontaneity and wisdom beyond the ken of most twenty-eight-year-old improvisers. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, six years younger, is a rhythmic turbine of down-home inflections. Two alternate takes have been added for the CD.-- © Frank John Hadley 1993--From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD