Jackie McLean - It's Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) AEC Music foreword from Carl Palmer and

foreword from Carl Palmer and rare band photos

Her tone poem Ethiopia's Shadow in America evokes the injustices experienced by people of African descent

Combined with the concerts in the Norwegian church

three songs by contemporary British composers admired by both Watkins and Hughes also resonate with the previous works

Jackie McLean - It's Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) AEC Music foreword from Carl Palmer andLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. This impassioned 1964 quintet session weaves post bop and free jazz into spirited original compositions by Jackie McLean and young trumpet sensation Charles Tolliver. They were joined by Herbie Hancock (piano), Cecil McBee (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums). While the style was considered new at the time, the searing cry of the blues is ever present in McLean's brilliant alto saxophone playing.