Jackie McLean: It's Time LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-14 Two Way Street

Two Way Street

recorded in 1963

Dedicated to the memory of his father John Blake Jr

The albums leaps out of the gate with McLean's searing title track followed by two pensive Tolliver originals: “Plight” and “Wrong Handle

Jackie McLean: It's Time LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-14 Two Way StreetBlue Note, 1965 This impassioned quintet session from 1964 weaves elements of post bop and free jazz into a supremely spirited program of original compositions by Jackie McLean and the young trumpet sensation Charles Tolliver. McLean and Tolliver were joined by pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Roy Haynes. While the music was classified as the new thing at the time, the searing cry of the blues is ever present in McLean's